Jazz breaking news: Killer Shrimp Return With New Album And Tour

The group which won a Parliamentary Jazz Award for best ensemble four years ago will also tour the album extensively in November. The new album which has 13 tracks sees Brown and Jones joined by bassist Mark Hodgson (in action last month with Cleveland Watkiss at the Brit Jazz Fest) and Scottish drummer Alyn Cosker who debuted on Linn Records with Lyn’s Une last year. Bassist Geoff Gascoyne formerly of the Jamie Cullum band guests on four tracks and Cinematic Orchestra drummer Luke Flowers on five.

Three years in the making the album came together following final studio work at the Cowshed theatre in north London involving producer Joe Leach who also plays some keyboards and does "sound gardening" on the album.

Tracks written either by Brown or Jones include ‘Stick and Stones’; ‘Baltic Wharf’; menacing souped up swinger 'Cornerhouse’; ‘Lef and Lee’; the laidback ‘It Never Happened’; ‘Bearded Eights’; the reggaefied ’Summer’; fluttering Cornet Coleman’; ‘Lost And Found’ with submarine sonar-like effects progressing to a hauntingly lovely ballad; the scuzzing ‘Yala’; shapeshifting ‘Find A Way’; and final track, the romping ‘Roughneck Blues’.

The album is released on the Luton-based 33 records label and the band tours the album in November with a string of dates beginning at the Lower Ground Bar, West Hampstead in London on 2 November continuing until 28 November. Other dates are Broomhill Arts Hotel, Barnstaple (3); Komedia Theatre Studio Bar, Brighton (5); Plume of Feathers, Sherborne (6); Future Inn, Bristol (7); Wakefield Jazz Sports Club, Wakefield (12); The Stoke By Nayland Club, Colchester (19); Barbican Free Stage, London (21); Y Theatre, Leicester (24); Bonnington Theatre, Nottingham (25); Cornerhouse Newcastle (26); and The Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon (28).

– Stephen Graham