Peaceful King

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Drawing on players from Entropi, Paradox Ensemble and other projects she plays in, pianist Rebecca Nash has assembled a likeminded collective whose strengths she knows well. Thus armed, she has... — Jazzwise, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Aug 2019
Catalogue No: WR4748
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Length: 54 minutes

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Rebecca Nash

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In her first major recording as leader, keyboardist and composer Rebecca Nash’s presents her Atlas group on ‘Peaceful King’, which interlaces a panoply of strands - rock, drum-and-bass, ‘70s fusion, soul-jazz and

electronica, alongside singer-songwriter influences - into a widening landscape of beauty of wonder.

The regular line-up of longtime associates Nick Malcolm (trumpet) and Matt Fisher (drums) plus Thomas Seminar Ford (electric guitar) and Chris Mapp (electric bass, electronics) is augmented here on three numbers by the rich, intuitive vocals of Sara Colman.

The exciting cross-pollination of music, especially discernible around the sphere of contemporary instrumental and vocal jazz, has become a strong, progressive feature of today’s fresh, creative outputs. Rebecca Nash is becoming increasingly visible in this area of the British scene; a major player in Entropi, Paradox Ensemble and Sara Colman’s band, as well as an educator with the National Youth Jazz Collective, Cheltenham Festivals, Birmingham Jazzlines and Birmingham Conservatoire.

Illustrator/musician Ning-ning Li has incorporated impressions of Nash’s eight tracks into the album’s sumptuous cover art. A distinctive electric piano figure announces title track ‘Peaceful King’, whose electronic effects (by Paradox’s Nick Walters) maintain a positivity explained as a reaction to the current state of the world, while free-flowing ‘Tumbleweed’ buzzes and bleeps with a redolence of the Pat Metheny Group. The remaining tracks include ‘Dreamer’ that continues Nash’s penchant for interlocking chord structures and references the cyclic patterns of the late, great John Taylor.

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October 2019

Drawing on players from Entropi, Paradox Ensemble and other projects she plays in, pianist Rebecca Nash has assembled a likeminded collective whose strengths she knows well. Thus armed, she has created a debut album of distinctively written pieces that allows her band plenty of individuality, while her subtly persuasive keyboards keep things moving in her chosen direction.

October 2019

The eight tracks form a holistic argument that Nash, and her superb band, are at the vanguard of innovative and compelling new music.

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