Jeremy Rose Quartet

| Sand Lines | Earshift EAR013

The dreamily enigmatic cover image is a perfect pointer to the musical contents. The expansive title track has skipping propulsion without ever seeming to burn any energy, and its melody and subsequent improvising dance across this propulsion without ever touching the ground. It is the musical epitome of a more elfin than ethereal lightness. Jeremy Rose’s timbre on soprano saxophone (as on alto elsewhere) is at one with the prevailing sense of gracefulness and airiness, a mood enhanced by pianist Jackson Harrison, bassist Alex Boneham and drummer James Waples. The chunkier groove of The Long Way Home (featuring guitarist Carl Morgan) does not prevent the music maintaining this wafting quality that lends it such a singular ephemerality. Hegemony is more otherworldly, and only the appropriately titled Debt Spiral jolts us back to earth.