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Review of Songs

Songs Trio: album artwork

by Ian Mann, 5th Sept. 2006

Songs was recorded in 2002 and is a full-length album which finds Ford in a piano trio with bassist Max De Wardener and drummer Iain Pattinson. Rather than tackle traditional jazz standards the trio prefer to concentrate on more modern material mainly written in the 1960's/70's and with roots in American folk and gospel music.

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Album review: Grass

Grass: album artwork

Review on JazzCDs by Ian Mann “Music By Other People” was recorded back in 1999 by the group Grass and features Ford together with saxophonist Jack Arnold, bassist Ben Hazleton and a very young Sebastian Rochford on drums, probably one of his earliest recordings. The group cover four compositions by jazz masters Charles Mingus, Duke Album review: Grass

Songs Trio

Dorian Ford
Songs trio have made two very popular recordings with the original line up of Dorian Ford (piano), Max de Wardener (bass), Iian Pattinson (drums) Playing 'songs' rather than 'standards' but as a jazz piano trio. The trio try to find the inner life inside the melody and structure of a classic song.

Carol Grimes

CDAWN: album artwork

Forthright, sensuous and defiantly independent singer who for over four decades has been one of the great British female vocalists.

There are few musical genres Carol has not inhabited and made her own, and her current quartet shuffles the musical deck in an artful, entertaining and thoroughly engaging way.