Artist: For All The Saints

Date of Release:

Catalogue no: 33

Label: Village Life

Price: £12

Add to Shopping Basket

Track Listing

Appearances by

Paul Clarvis, Stan Sulzmann

FOR ALL THE SAINTS are a leading edge jazz improvisatory group based on world tunes and their own compositions in the area where jazz meets contemporary classical. All three members lead their own groups but this is the most exploratory in the avant garde field.

About their current release on Village Life, JOHN FORDHAM at the GUARDIAN wrote... 'An unusual combination of approaches, with the Jarretish keyboards of Tony Hymas, the graceful pensive sound of Stan Sulzmann's saxaphone and flute, and Paul Clarvis's impressionistic drumming. Thus the music successfully bridges a kind of patient, detailed contemporary classical music and free improvisation, with idiomatic references drawn from Latvia, Scotland and the Middle East'...

Paul Clarvis formed the band following a request from Andrew Halifax to record jazz in the Petersham Church,a renowned classical music studio. He had wanted to record with Stan for some time, and Stan brought Tony Hymas into the project. Since doing the album they have also performed some blistering live gigs around London.

Reviews