{"id":1000,"date":"2010-08-01T17:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2010-08-01T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T16:53:59","slug":"stuart-mccallum-the-golden-age-of-steam-trio-vd-manchester-jazz-festival-friday-30th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Stuart McCallum, The Golden Age of Steam, Trio VD:  Manchester Jazz Festival Friday, 30th July."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Stuart McCallum, The Golden Age of Steam, Trio VD:<span> <\/span>Manchester Jazz Festival Friday, 30th July. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">British Jazz appears to be going through a period of rude health. A generation of young musicians has been emerging fresh from jazz courses at British conservatoires with a technical brilliance and eclectic sense of influence that was on show in the Festival tent, tonight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Stuart McCallum\u2019s solo guitar began the evening.<span> <\/span>McCallum used loops and echo to create a textured tapestry of warm colours.<span> <\/span>At points, he sounded a little like the late lamented John Martyn pinging and plucking his echoplex across \u2018Spencer the Rover\u2019.<span> <\/span>At other times, McCallum\u2019s textured drive reminded me of Steve Reich\u2019s minimalist <em>Electric Counterpoint<\/em>, written for Pat Metheny. Although McCallum told us that he wasn\u2019t interested in melody, there is a melodic feel to these pieces and his solo lines against his delicate ostinatos are built on song-like resonances. McCallum finished with an exquisite rendering of \u2018Amazing Grace\u2019;<span> <\/span>the tune delicately placed over poignant chords. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Golden Age of Steam featured James Allsop on tenor and bass clarinet, Kit Downes on Hammond organ and Tim Giles on drums.<span> <\/span>The Golden Age of Steam have obviously turned their backs on the golden age of organ trios;<span> <\/span>none of the Jimmie Smith \u2018soul jazz\u2019 here.<span> <\/span>There is, rather, an expressionist feel to this group\u2019s work.<span> <\/span>The whole range of dynamics is used, often with open spaces in which the organ or the bass clarinet offer plangent noodlings.<span> <\/span>At other times, Tim Giles offers busy grooves over which Allsop\u2019s tenor curves and weaves.<span> <\/span>Kit Downes who will surely tire of being introduced as \u2018Mercury nominated\u2019, is working on a sparse Hammond sound, to accompany driving bass ostinati. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Trio VD, who formed at Leeds College of Music, on the other hand, offer aggression in shed loads.<span> <\/span>A power trio of alto, drums, and scorching guitar, Trio VD easily drowned the police sirens and the caterwauling drunks of a busy Friday night in the centre of Manchester.<span> <\/span>They exist in that rich industrial heartland where Sonic Youth meets Ornette Coleman, and the New York Downtown of John Zorn and the Knitting Factory.<span> <\/span>Visually, they are a strident, and bald, version of the Muppets band, mixing fiendish tempos and guitar synth.<span> <\/span>At the heart of all this, though, is a finely tuned architecture and a real sense of where they are going.<span> <\/span>Actually, at the end of the day, not to be missed!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">And, as I walked back to my car, passed by Hummers tricked out as courtesy cars for the latest \u2018gentleman\u2019s lounge\u2019, and the queues still waiting to get into the new Factory, I rather felt a kind of glow at the city\u2019s ceaseless, rejuvenating energy.<span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart McCallum, The Golden Age of Steam, Trio VD: Manchester Jazz Festival Friday, 30th July. 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