Description
Listeners familiar with our releases with the Leeds-based Mu Quintet should take note, as this is a special collaboration bringing in tenor saxophonist Alex Fisher and New York–based pianist Michael Kanan. Together they show just how beautifully they can handle classic jazz standards, alongside two original tunes penned for the session.
The album was recorded on the hillside above Keighley, West Yorkshire, at the studio of British pianist Matthew Bourne. Mike Kanan has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for over 30 years and is known for his elegant swing and deep knowledge of the music. Having played the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Smalls Jazz Club, here he joins an assortment of Leeds-based musicians in a setting very distant from the urban environment of Manhattan, New York.
Born out of respect and admiration for Mike’s work, this one-off collaboration finds the musicians in good form, in a younger generation of musicins meets the traveling veteran. The music moves between impressions of songs from the Great American Songbook + own written material.
Featuring Alex “The Fish” Fisher on tenor saxophone, Simon Henry on drums, Elliot Roffe on double bass, Joel Stedman on guitar, and Michael Kanan on piano.
Only 150 copies were made, and after the band and a few selected shops took their share, 100 copies are available here, all individually numbered in a printed fold-out sleeve.
