Quercus - Floating Point
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Iconic folk singer June Tabor has teamed up with jazz pianist Huw Warren and saxophonist Iain Ballamy, to form one of the more unusual trios of recent years, Quercus.
An affecting jazz-folk triumvirate, their sublimely poised debut on ECM i s released this month, and as Selwyn Harris discovers, the trio’s exquisite sound moves between English and Nor dic folk traditions, Benedictine Monk songs and a dash of Shakespeare too
June Tabor, the grand dame of English folk music, is expressing her deep admiration for the exceptionally versatile pianist Huw Warren, her close musical partner and musical director now for over 25 years. But nobody’s perfect of course. “He does everything except sing and he’s Welsh!” she says, her voice rising to an incredulous scream down the line from her Shropshire home. “Goodness me, have you ever met a Welshman who could sing and didn’t? That’s the one thing he hasn’t done yet is sing.”
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