Vortex, London
On the late, great Barbadian trumpeter Harry Beckett's birthday ? 30 May ? a score of musicians came to pay their respects. Beckett, who died last year after an almost six-decade career in UK jazz, was at home with everything from improv to dance music. But he brought a lightness of touch and infectious optimism to it all, even in the most austere of sonic adventures. A raggedly upbeat evening caught that personality, and the raft of changes in jazz thinking Beckett had witnessed.
Trumpeter Chris Batchelor reflected his mentor's skipping phrasing and melodic fluency in the first half-hour, in a sparky quartet featuring the restless, rumbling momentum of Liam Noble's piano. A sharp contrast followed in the shape of an ad-hoc improv group built around a rare appearance by rock session-guitarist, producer and former Beckett free-jazz collaborator Ray Russell. Russell, young trumpeter Ian Smith and the elegantly alfresco bass/drums team of Nick Stephens and Tony Marsh edged their way from cautious speculations toward a collage-like music of fast-moving trumpet impressionism, bluesily Claptonesque guitar trills and remarkably swinging free-rhythms.
Piano virtuoso Keith Tippett then delivered a solo set in which effects bordering on the orchestral or the electronic were achieved with nothing more than a handful of pebbles on the soundboard, hammering low runs, lyrical chords and cymbal-like sounds. Beckett's last rhythm section then revisited his themes with the fluent pairing of Henry Lowther on trumpet and Chris Biscoe on sax, before tuba-maestro Oren Marshall's Highlife band ? augmented by a three-trumpet front line featuring Batchelor, Claude Deppa and Kevin Robinson ? took a heartwarmingly affectionate show out on sparkling reggae and ska grooves.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/31/harry-beckett-tribute-review
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