Caroline Scott: Khoalesce
Author: Andy Robson
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Musicians: |
Caroline Scott (d) |
Label: |
Caroline Scott Music |
Magazine Review Date: |
Feb/2019 |
RecordDate: |
23-24 July 2018 |
Like Lorraine Baker, Scott is a Trinity Laban graduate who has cut her teeth at Oliver’s bar and has the support of the likes of Liam Noble and Asaf Sirkis. This is a crowd-funded project that’s grown out of her gigging of the last year, and also bears the fruit of an enforced break recovering from open heart surgery. With 11 songs in barely 34 minutes, with no cut reaching five minutes, the lack of prolixity is welcome. Indeed, the economy of presentation is matched by Scott’s style: light of touch, incisive yet swinging, there’s a rhythmic assurance whether on brushes, all lush behind the late-night sax of Eagles on ‘Overflow’, or more bumptious with the kicking off beats of ‘Orang Utan’. All the material is her own, and she can move with ease between the slinky Blue Note vibe of ‘Blues For Kev’ and the rambunctious challenge of ‘Big Flashing Lights’, with Turville urgent but never hurried. As the pianist is currently touring with Baker, he’s obviously got a good handle on this new generation of drummers, and we’d be wise to equally keep an ear out for them.
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