| BDK Vortex Jazz Album Review
“…a compelling and original album, and a great calling card for their exhilarating live act”. Vortex Jazz CD Review
Bourne/Davis/Kane
Lost Something
Edition Records EDN1003
As anyone who’s witnessed their Vortex performances will already know, the trio comprised of Matthew Bourne (piano), Dave Kane (bass) and Steven Davis (drums) operate in the fertile yet sparsely peopled terrain lying on the border between structured and free music. On this album, recorded in Leeds in 2004, their material is exactly divided between spiky, vibrant originals (by Davis and Kane) and compositions from Annette Peacock (the extraordinary rattling opener, ‘Kid Dynamite’), Carla Bley (‘Donkey’), Thelonious Monk (a wildly eccentric, cleverly fragmented visit to ‘Round Midnight’) and John Surman (‘In Between’, from The Trio), but the band’s approach is so individual that they thoroughly customise everything they address so that it sounds distinctively theirs – a sure sign of genuine, deeply felt musical compatibility. Passages of roiling intensity jostle against bursts of free-ish scrabbling and the odd quieter, lyrical moment; Davis’s clattering, tight yet rackety drums, Kane’s lithe bass and Bourne’s multi-textured, dynamically varied, witty piano at once fiercely interactive and individually striking – overall, a compelling and original album, and a great calling card for their exhilarating live act.
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