Tom Arthurs & his international Quintet, "Sartre's Croissant + 1" - JLU - 10.07.11

[Guest]

Jazz Line-Up presented by Julian Joseph presents Trumpet and Flugel horn jazz virtuoso Tom Arthurs with his international Quintet Sartre's Croissant + 1.

The F-IRE Collective put on a show at the Vortex this week and I'd wondered where Tom Arthurs had got to.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

listening now to this about three pieces in to the performance... they have picked up the tempo a bit ... needed after two meandering ensemble pieces ... i feel they lack presence through this medium, would have to hear them in the room, but they sound rather interesting, subtle and attentive to each other ....

[Serial_Apologist]

listening now to this about three pieces in to the performance... they have picked up the tempo a bit ... needed after two meandering ensemble pieces ... i feel they lack presence through this medium, would have to hear them in the room, but they sound rather interesting, subtle and attentive to each other ....

Inscrutable, I'd say. At one time I had Mr Arthurs down as a successor to Kenny Wheeler...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

....yep, introvert and a tad self absorbed .... lacking dynamics but still ....

[hackneyvi]

listening now to this about three pieces in to the performance... they have picked up the tempo a bit ... needed after two meandering ensemble pieces ... i feel they lack presence through this medium, would have to hear them in the room, but they sound rather interesting, subtle and attentive to each other ....

Inscrutable, I'd say. At one time I had Mr Arthurs down as a successor to Kenny Wheeler...

....yep, introvert and a tad self absorbed .... lacking dynamics but still ....

I'm listening to the first piece - Castalia - and it seems to have gone from purely, softly hissed and breathed to tumbling and then to a hoarse-throated clatter. It feels, at 20 minutes on the iPlayer to be melodic, even lyrical at the close. The second piece start, to my ignorant ears, isn't so far from Gil Evans, is it?

I keep coming back to the thought and feeling of my first encounter with this modern improv; that it's nature music, music with the entire scope of sound restored to it after centuries of wonderful but ultimately deadening 'purification'; at times, it could be every one of the sounds made by the winds in every one of the woods and roofs of the world.