Dinosaur - Together, As One [Audio CD]

?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 Laura?s 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 Jurd?s 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 Guardian The 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 ''Punch' looks set to become one of the most acclaimed and distinctive British jazz releases of 2016.' 4 1/2 Stars --The Jazzman