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Brass Jaw, on a UK tour to support their latest album, Burn, are four fresh-faced Glaswegians. Altoists Martin Kershaw and Paul Towndrow took care of last night's whizziest solos but the others were no less valuable.

Konrad Wiszniewski's tenorsax-ballad feature, Chelsea Bridge, was the most lyrical performance of the set, while Allon Beauvoisin's chunky baritone-sax beats and "walking" bass-lines served to create a firm rhythmic foundation.

Imaginative ensemble writing was their strongest suit. Walking on the Moon, scored by Towndrow, included a rubato section of held notes that worked very well.

Chelsea Bridge had slowly trilling chords under the tenor solo, and Afro Blue, adapted from a guitar solo by the late great Emily Remler, was a close-harmony feast.

So too was Kershaw's feature, All the Things You Are, while the set-closer, Damn Fine-O, was packed with staccato blues figures, nailed in perfect unison. Meticulously rehearsed yet free-spirited, this was brass with class.

Brass Jaw
Pizza Express Jazz Club, W1