Buy When Life Was In Black and White
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Audio CD
No. of CD’s: 1
Released: Sept 2008
Cat No: EDN1008
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Buy ‘When Life Was In Black and White’ and DSQ’s ‘The House Always Wins’ together.
Price for both: £18.00
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“Dave Stapleton is a real find for British Jazz…a young musician of real maturity and vision…it’s the breadth of his talent that’s most encouraging. He writes exceptionally well drawing on his classical training as well as jazz and he’s hungry to explore the possibilities of free improvisation…There’s something refreshingly unstuffy about Dave Stapleton’s sources of inspiration. There’s Jarrett and Hancock, of course, Dave Holland and Joshua Redman but also the American Minimalists like Phillip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley”. Jazzwise
“Dave Stapleton’s quintet performed tunes from their current CD, ‘When Life Was In Black and White’. Allowing his European classical background to shine through in compositions of arresting melodic continuity, his band succeeded not so much through individual voices, but by the strength of their collective musical personality.” The Observer
“Idiosyncratically powerful reappraisal of both post-bop and free-jazz” The Guardian
“ECM-ish, filmic originals from distinctive Cardiff-based pianist as heard on his excellent recent album, ‘When Life Was Black And White’”. Time Out
“Stapleton is one of the most refreshing, sophisticated and intelligent young jazz composers working today. Innovative, infectious and utterly compelling, the future of new British jazz is in safe hands”. The Western Mail
“This music is vital and fresh…full of powerful riffs, melodic hooks and intriguing and surprising turns of phrase…this is up there with the Barkers, Sheppards and Baptistes of the UK scene”. Jazzwise
