Kate Williams Septet: Made Up

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Oli Hayhurst (b)
Tristan Mailliot (d)
Ben Somers (s)
Kate Williams (p)
Jermey Brown (b)
Steve Fishwick (t)
Gareth Lochrane (fl, picc)
Julian Siegel (ts, ss, bcl)

Label:

Kwjazz

Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Catalogue Number:

737

RecordDate:

2011

This is the fourth album from Kate Williams, daughter of a classical-pianist mother and guitar-virtuoso father (John Williams), and her first for such a large ensemble. Williams has previously won the John Dankworth Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition – a prize she clearly merited judging by this insinuatingly unshowy disc, which quietly and unself-regardingly shows off her skills as composer and leader, as well as as an undemonstratively engagingly pianist. The only non-original is a thoughtful cover of Eliane Elias’s ‘One Side of You’, which is swiftly followed up by the vigorous samba shuffle of ‘For Eliane’. Worth seeking out.

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