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Soweto Kinch - Conversations with the Unseen


relyles

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A name to watch in the future - Soweto Kinch. Kinch is making a name for himself on the British jazz scene. Kinch's rise to media attention has similarities with Joshua Redman's over a decade ago. Winner of the 2002 Montreux International Saxophone competition (where judges included Lee Konitz, Jean Toussaint and David Sanborn) and a BBC Rising Star award, Kinch is also a graduate of prestigious Oxford.

Kinch recently released his debut recording, Conversations with the Unseen. In a cover article in the April issue of Jazzwise Kinch indicates that he is exploring connections between jazz and hip hop as forms of improvisation. The recording features Kinch on a couple of rap vocals, but the date is primarily a showcase for Kinch's alto saxophone in a quartet joined by Femi Temowo (g), Michael Olatuja (bass) and Troy Miller (d). I am not going to call Kinch the next innovator on the alto, but he is a very talented player and seems to be trying to find his own voice. He plays with passion and inventiveness throughout. Several of the compositions feature shifting rhythms, but overall it is a fairly straightahead recording with hints of adventure.

Worth a listen.

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