Product Description Together, As One is the third album as a leader from British award-winning trumpet player, composer and band-leader Laura Jurd and her debut with newly named band Dinosaur. Featuring Lauras regular collaborators, friends and creative cohort Elliot Galvin, Conor Chaplin and Corrie Dick, Together, As One is a coherently powerful and bold album that not only confirms her promise as one of the most important young musicians to emerge but is a statement that will launch her music further into the wider international jazz world. Laura Jurds rise as been nothing short of meteoric since she first burst onto the highly creative London scene in 2010. Very quickly she made a bold statement, releasing two highly acclaimed albums, leading to her selection as a BBC New Generation Artist. With her undeniably unique, creative and joyous spirit and approach to music making, she has developed a formidable reputation as one of the most creative young improvising musicians to emerge from the UK in recent years. Review Imagine the impressionistic electric-jazz moodiness and glistening keyboard textures of Miles Davis's In A Silent Way seamlessly wrapped around Celtic folk melodies, Django Batesian idiom-swaps, and interwoven with American, Scottish and north African drumming and you might have a feel for this superb set from Laura Jurd, the young trumpeter who has made such an impact on UK jazz over four packed years. She's joined by regular sidekicks Elliot Galvin (keys), Conor Chaplin (bass guitar) and Corrie Dick (drums) on this beautifully played and effortlessly confident collage of contemporary styles. A marimba-like hook, softly clacking sticks-patterns and a whirry, looping high trumpet figure patiently unfold the luxuriously stretching opener, skippy jigs alternating with slews of shifting dance grooves. Spanish harmonies meet gothic church organ chords on Steadily Sinking, and the nine-minute Extinct perhaps the best track among some hot contenders fascinatingly mingles slow-burning, valve-fluttering trumpet improv, Galvin's gently churning Wurlitzer sound, dramatically swelling build-ups and cool ensemble swing. The album title gets this special band's essence just right. FIVE STARS --The GuardianThe empathy between these four - a band for six years now - together with the sophistication both of the compositions and the playing elevates the music on this disc to a level where it can stand proudly with the finest contemporary jazz from anywhere in the world... An Album of the Year to be sure. --The Jazz Breakfast
J**D
Together, As One.
A rewarding and imaginative album from trumpeter Laura Jurd leading her quartet, Dinosaur.Jurd clearly stands out - not so much because she's the leader, but as the only one playing a vocal instrument framed against a woven background of electronica and percussion; the music is exploratory and quite distant from the jazz-rock format a group like this would generally take.She avoids going down the Milesian road (her trumpet is resolutely open-belled most of the time, her smears and half-valve effects played without electronic aids) and the compositions are stimulating and unpredictable. The band is very well integrated, the tracks varied and the playing inspired.An album that begs repeated listening – do check out the sound samples above if they are available; the CD has a running time of just under 47 minutes.Recommended.
M**T
inventive and exiting
I bought the second album 'wonder trail' from Laura at a gig [see review].......this earlier one is just as inventive and exiting, the band integrate so well. In style the albums are similar although this 2016 is 'busier' and the later one has a more open sparer sound........superb music.
T**T
Support your local Dinosaur
Believe the hype - this is a terrific album. As others have said, there are strong shades of electric Miles, but Laura Jurd has her own trumpet voice, and the album has its own personality. Dinosaur are well worth your money and your time. I've docked them a star, but only in the hope - and belief - that even better is to come.
M**Y
Superb new jazz release
I hadn't bought a new jazz CD for ages and with this on the Mercury list thought why not. It is one of the best jazz releases in the last 20 years. No chance of it winning the Mercury prize sadly but what a great album.
D**Y
A Great Find
Great trumpet player. The first track sounds like Miles.
S**E
Together, as one
I love this album
B**H
Five Stars
A really great album on very good quality 180g vinyl.
A**R
Four Stars
good
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