Euan Burton's previous recordings have pitched the bassist from East Kilbride in with leading players from the international jazz scene, including New York heavyweights drummer Ari Hoenig and guitarist Gilad Hekselman.
Here, however, his colleagues are all fellow Scots in a quartet that matches the high standard of what's gone before. Burton is a composer with an ear for strong melodies, be they plaintive (as on All That Is Left) or jubilant (like the closing title track), and in both alto saxophonist Adam Jackson, who wears his heart on his sleeve Art Pepper-style, and pianist Tom Gibbs, he has players who can express and develop them with sensitivity and creative momentum. A long-time associate of Burton's, like Burton's school-friend Jackson, Gibbs is a tremendous asset on these tracks, not least for making Rhapsody truly, well, rhapsodic. Drummer Alyn Cosker similarly applies gentle strokes where appropriate and stokes an ebullient, very much together ensemble with irresistible, always musical force when things really heat up.
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