Paul Dunmall - That’s My Life '2024

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This album, That's My Life, was more than ten years in the making. But the seeds
were planted long before that. Saxophonist Paul Dunmall and Drummer Tony Orrell
met in 1979 in a Bristol-based band Spirit Level. Bristol would later become
famous for cultural icons like Massive Attack, Portishead and Banks, but it had
always been a magnet for creatives who didn’t want to live in
London—offering artistic enclaves in the provinces’ mellower
surroundings. This included the jazz that Orrell and Dunmall were exploring in
their youth. While the British jazz scene has been defined by its parochial
side, and lives in the shadows of America’s tradition—many
musicians were drawn to powerful expressions of the exiled South African Blue
Notes and Brotherhood of Breath, Keith Tippett, Kenny Wheeler, Tony Oxley and
the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Decades later, this recording documents the
trio’s reunion as Paul Rogers returned from the States. They all shine as
musicians, Orrell's drums moving confidently between ambitious rhythms, Rogers
lending smooth, sexy basslines and Dunmall's saxophone simply on fire. The
performance built on decades of collaboration, and remarkably varied lives,
producing a delightful, delicious performance. Although critics (and music
writers) tend to control the history of the music, often requiring neat
categorization, musicians’ lives are as integral to their expression as
formal training. In this case, that expression is as richly textured as the
lives they've lived. Aptly named, That’s My Life, will be available on CD
and digitally in January 2023. 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Paul Dunmall - That’s My Life (24:23) 
1.02 - Paul Dunmall - Marriage In India (16:18)

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