Laura Jurd & Dinosaur - Together, As One review: 'Jurd revels in her knack for improvisation and melodic lines'

Trumpet player Laura Jurd is one of Britain’s fastest rising jazz stars, a twentysomething composer and musician with a love of punk and Miles Davis and a contacts book to die for.

This debut band album features her longstanding quartet, a supergroup of sorts featuring keyboardist Elliot Galvin, bassist Conor Chaplin and Corrie Dick, a revelation on driving, West African-flavoured kit drums.

Ideas and moods jostle through eight originals including the ambient Awakening, the multiple keyboarddriven Steadily Sinking and Extinct, a simmering nine-minute excursion that finds Jurd revelling in her knack for improvisation, deft use of space and elegant, melodic lines.

They play Kings Place, N1, on November 3.

(Edition Records)

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