Caught in the Light of Day
IVO NEAME piano
JIM HART vibes
JASPER HØIBY double bass
JAMES MADDREN drums
UK Release Date 30 Nov 2009
Pianist and composer Ivo Neame has fast become one of the most interesting musicians to emerge on the UK Jazz scene in recent years and together with some of the most in demand musicians in the business released his second album, Caught in the Light of Day on Edition Records. Over the last few years Ivo Neame has recorded and performed throughout the world on piano and saxophone with diverse artists such as Matthew Herbert, Seb Rochford, F-ire collective big band, Stan Sulzmann, Tim Garland, Jim Mullen, Gerard Presencer, Mark Lockheart, Alec Dankworth, Gilad Atzmon, Henry Lowther and Julian Siegel. Now it is his turn to shine. His album Caught In The Light of Day demonstrates the combined brilliance of his writing and playing. Listen to it once and you’ll be impressed. Listen twice and its gifts will begin to unfold. The quality of the writing and the performances are immediately apparent but on repeated listens you hear how the musicians foster and nurture these compositions. Neame trusts his team and lets them take the form of each track into their own hands. This record is about interplay, about letting the music breathe.
“Angular lines, unexpected intervals and changes of tempo and mood, all negotiated with a deft fluidity echoed by the playing of this fine young quartet”. IRISH TIMES
“Sounds rather like a slippery, angular, latterday MJQ”. OBSERVER
“A showcase for Neame’s blossoming keyboard powers. There are fast postboppers with stop-time variations, meditations turning into arrhythmic Latin grooves, bright melodic fragments dropping into preoccupied rocking vamps and then dreamy contemplation. It’s a set full of edgy and characterful themes, matched by resourceful, conversational improvising”. GUARDIAN ****
