Corrie Dick
Impossible Things
(Chaos Collective)
London-based Scottish drummer Corrie Dick has been showing more than one musician’s share of imagination since before he left Glasgow for Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and now that he’s an established figure among the UK’s young jazz set he’s brought forth a first physical CD release (previous efforts were downloads only) brimming with ideas, influences, original thinking and creative energy. Surrounded by talents including the splendid pianist Matt Robinson, organist Joe Webb, saxophonists Joe Wright and George Crowley, and fiddler-singer Alice Zawadzki, Dick presents music that’s by turns joyful, celebratory, meditative, fragile, child-like, bold, processional, and freewheeling. King William Walk, for his dad, gathers folk, gospel, African and maybe some Tom Waits flavours into a loving, heartfelt tribute with excellent soloing and every track mirrors that ambition and more. Annamarrakech captures the spirit and tempo of Moroccan street music and the final, tolling Don’t Cry cleverly creates the kind of atmospheric group interaction that calls the listener back again and again.
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