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# REVIEWS: All that Jazz with Simon Adams
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/reviews-all-that-jazz-with-simon-adams/
- Published: 2022-01-24T11:30:43.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-24T11:35:33.000Z
- Description: Simon Adams shares the hottest jazz albums that are hitting the high notes…
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Arts, Music, Jazz, music, Reviews

**Simon Adams** reviews the hottest jazz albums that are hitting the high notes…

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**BRANDEE YOUNGER: *Somewhere Different*** (**Impulse!**) I raved last January about harpist **Brandee Younger’s** lockdown set with bassist **Dezron Douglas**, but here she is now on a major label with a larger band behind her. Younger’s mission is to demystify the perception of the harp as solely a classical instrument, using it to play jazz, soul, r&b, hip-hop, rap, and funk, often gently amplifying and electronically treating her strings to gossamer effect.

Personally, I wanted to hear more of her alone, for she is an adept musician playing a rarely heard instrument, but she gets somewhat lost in this glossy, soft-focussed production. But this is nicely mixed set, part meditative and downtempo, part idealistic and upbeat, and always bang up to date.

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**JORGE ROSSY/ROBERT LANDFERMANN/JEFF BALLARD: *Puerta*** (**ECM**). Catalan musician **Jorge Rossy** is best known as a drummer, notably for **Brad Melhdau** and **Charlie Haden**, but has also worked and recorded as a pianist. For his ECM debut as leader – but not for the first time on record – he has turned to the vibraphone and marimba, handing over the drum stool to **Jeff Ballard**. Bassist **Robert Landfermann** completes the trio.

For this set of original compositions, Jossy knew that he needed three soloists, not just a rhythm section, for the set to be a completely balanced affair. As he did when playing drums, his own contributions unfold in elegant waves, made up of minimal phrases all chosen with care. This is a stylish, cool album, an exciting development in Rossy’s varied musical life. Highly recommended.

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**SEAN GIBBS: *When Can I See You Again?*** (**Ubuntu Music**)**.** Trumpeter **Sean Gibbs** grew up in Edinburgh and learned his craft among the various Scottish youth jazz orchestras. A graduate of the **Birmingham Conservatoire**, he is currently a member of the **Scottish National Jazz Orchestra** and has worked with numerous small groups and big bands.

This is his debut album, and what a confident if unpretentious set it is. Steeped in the jazz tradition, it is packed with solid grooves, lyrical and catchy melodies – all the compositions are his – and a deep connection to the blues. And to **Blue Note** records, too, for this set would sit comfortably among its many classic hard bop and soul jazz releases from the 1950s and ’60s. If I were Sean Gibbs, I would be mighty proud of this album.