JAZZ

TRYPL

Ubuntu Music ✪✪✪✪

Saxophonist Paul Booth, trumpeter Ryan Quigley and trombonist Trevor Mires have done much gig and session work together and found they all had form playing Latin-american music, so they teamed up with pianist Alex Wilson, bassist Dimitris Christopoulos, percussionist Edwin Sanz and alternating drummers Tristan Banks and Davide Giovannini … and do they have a ball!

From the opening syncopated rumpus of Booth’s Bojo, with its horns sparring over staccato piano and clattering percussion outbursts, they thrive in each other’s company. Quigley hits the highs in his composition Bailar Toda La Noche and Booth’s Sacudido No Revuelto, while Wilson’s Scallywag sees hightension brass stabbing across its composer’s frenetic piano. The only non-band-member composition is the dreamy Tres Palabras by Osvaldo Farres, with Booth and Quigley both in lyrical form, while the closing number is a Mires composition called Here We Go – and they do, they do. ■