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While coherent well-structured development is never neglected, rugged piano, bass and drums from John Crawford, Davide Mantovani and Banks himself drive ten of Banks’s compositions forward with... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023 More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2023
Catalogue No: UBU0131LP
Label: Ubuntu

Presto Recording of the Week

31st March 2023

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Recording of the Week, Tristan Banks - View From Above

31st March 2023

With over 30 years of experience, drummer Tristan Banks delivers an outstanding debut recording, brimming with energy and imagination.

UK drummer/composer/producer Tristan Banks draws on over 30 years of experience as a sideman for many Grammy award-winning and platinum selling artists. Mixing influences from the jazz, Latin jazz and fusion idioms, the music is a unique combination of high-octane virtuosic performance and sublimely melodic composition. Banks brings together his long-standing musical friends--Paul Booth (saxes), John Crawford (piano) and Davide Mantovani (bass)--to articulate his musical vision. Tristan explains: “The idea was to push the acoustic jazz quartet format to the limit, being able to re-image the possibilities that the classic saxophone, piano, bass, drums line-up can manifest, and by being conscious of the sonic traditions that are typically replayed to confirm the listeners tastes while avoiding the genres timbral clichés.” Tristan continues: “I have always had an interest in music that makes you move as well as simulating the mind with musical interplay and deeper compositional concepts, so the idea was to select tunes that I had written over the last 15 years and record them in a live performance setting with no click track or isolation recording techniques. This created a perfect environment to generate and capture the musical energy of the performance.”

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July 2023

While coherent well-structured development is never neglected, rugged piano, bass and drums from John Crawford, Davide Mantovani and Banks himself drive ten of Banks’s compositions forward with a determination sometimes bordering on ferocity, while Paul Booth’s reeds and woodwind ride the waves with aplomb.

April 2023

…This is a band of craftsmen playing the forms of acoustic jazz they relish, and their pleasure in that is infectiously palpable.

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