To The Earth by Dinosaur, released on Edition Records in 2020.

British jazz supergroup presents their third album, To the Earth.

As they enter their tenth year of trumpet-led, improvisatory magic, Mercury-nominated Dinosaur present brand new material which reflects ten years of making music as a band.

Playing the compositions of bandleader and multi-award-winning composer Laura Jurd, Dinosaur explore Jurd's distinctive yet ever-evolving music with playful abandon and technical prowess.

Over the past decade, they have earned a reputation as some of the best UK jazz musicians of their generation and played at some of the world's most iconic jazz festivals including North Sea, Molde and Montréal.

https://dinosaurband.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLB0LrhUyc&list=RDwPLB0LrhUyc&start_radio=1

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Landing Ground by Laura Jurd, released on Chaos Collective in 2012.

The Guardian - review by John Fordham

"...Landing Ground, which combines her jazz group and the Ligeti String Quartet, has a markedly through-composed and contemporary-classical feel – but the leader on trumpet, her fellow Trinity College student Elliot Galvin on piano ..and cellist Ben Davis all supply succinct and original improvisation. Moreover, Jurd's striking themes suggest English, Spanish and Scottish folk melodies, and (on the beautiful Happy Sad Song) something of the wry lyricism of Kenny Wheeler. The evocative Flight Music joins melodic and rhythmic ideas without losing its sense of tranquillity...Jurd's huge promise as a trumpet improviser is showcased in a series of short duets – long-toned and graceful with the cello, free-jazzy with the piano, vivaciously dancing with the drums."

https://laurajurd.bandcamp.com/album/landing-ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkF9uCprhs&list=PL0Q0AWwWtyudZAQETvMR_6Ikd-oxlj2Ng&index=1

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Gods of Apollo
by Rob Cope from 2019

Using archival audio from NASA, Gods Of Apollo is an improvised soundtrack to the space race!

Ian Mann wrote on the Jazz Mann

“’..Gods of Apollo’ is like a movie soundtrack, a love letter to space and music...The journey begins with the near thirteen minute “Sputnik” which commences with almost subliminal looped ‘space noises’, sonar perhaps, these providing the backdrop for Cope’s solo soprano sax ruminations. These are thoughtful and unhurried and possessed of an almost zen like calm as he probes gently and airily...Mostly though the opener is about the leader’s serpentine sax meditations, his soprano a searching beam of light in the darkness of space..."

https://www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/rob-cope-gods-of-apollo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6aOfpk8PTY

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Concert: Elliot Galvin overtuigt volop met live-uitvoering van The Ruin
https://writteninmusic.com/concertverslag/elliot-galvin-overtuigt-volop-met-live-uitvoering-van-the-ruin/

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Recensie: Elliot Galvin – The Ruin ★★★★½
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/elliot-galvin-the-ruin/

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