...... new album ''SONGS FOR THE SEVEN HILLS'' . . *************************************************************
"On his second album as a leader, Pianist Alex Hutton reveals a rich vein of composing skills in the ‘Songs for Seven Hills’ – a soundtrack to his childhood memories of life in and around the city of Sheffield.
Memory often takes on a dream-like quality, and the music here reflects this, with echoes of children’s song, church music, folk song, and classical impressionism, but always with a jazz musicians’ sense of daring." Jim Mullen, March '08.......***************************************************************
Like 'CROSS THAT BRIDGE' , 'SONGS FROM THE SEVEN HILLS has a narrative design rather than just being a string of tunes, and in this case it addresses the pianist's roots in the landscapes of his native Yorkshire (it's subtitled The Sheffield Suite), the punk-folk of the Stranglers, regular piano jazz, and English classical music. ...the 'Suite' moves through a scattering of improvisations that join an affectingly hooky melodic knack to a rich and freewheeling impressionism as his speculations open out.
Hutton often favours the Esbjörn Svensson method of broaching a simple melody and progressively and hypnotically thickening it, and he's aided in this by the alert drumming of Enzo Zirilli and the dynamic bass-playing of expat American Michael Janisch. Janisch is Scott LaFaro-like in his countermelodic exchanges with Hutton on the initially spacey Surprise Corner, and his bowed playing is majestic on the tumbling, bell-pealing Seventh Hill. Hutton gets rhapsodic and Jarrett-like on the finale. It's a set that will stand high among UK jazz achievements at the year's end.
hi Alex, do you play in london soon because i'm coming the 29th november to the 1th december with my girl friend and we like to listen a jazz concert.... excuse me for my poor english ! see you later
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Thank you for stopping by ! Yes, I have a few things going on that make me happy :-). For instance, tomorrow I'm going to see my "dad's" live lecture . I've never seen Wayne Dyer in the flesh before and I'm as excited as one can be ....Wish you were here , we could go together . I'm sure you'd love him too :-). How's you dear ? Any news ?
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