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Live at The Vortex

by Kristian Borring

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1.
Imperfect Circumstances 06:03
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2.
Fable 07:20
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3.
A Lullaby 05:33
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4.
London Magic 08:53
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Skylark 08:52
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6.
April Fools 08:24
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about

This album was recorded at the legendary Vortex Jazz Club, in Dalston, London. The Vortex is a spiritual home to many London jazz musicians. The concert concluded the quartet's tour to promote their album 'Silent Storm', from which a couple of tracks also feature here.

Read Adrian Pallant's review:

DANISH GUITARIST Kristian Borring’s most recent solo albums (Urban Novel and Silent Storm) revealed artistry and technique of particularly deft, cool clarity – and from the bright, opening phrases of the first of six well-chosen numbers, these live quartet recordings garnered from a session at London’s Vortex Jazz Club hold the attention in an especially direct way.

Live music is so precious; and a glimpse (or memory) of this quartet’s late-November evening sparkle is recorded and engineered here with precision by Alex Bonney, the inclusion of appreciative, close audience applause placing it in context. Along with pianist Rick Simpson, double bassist Dave Whitford and drummer Jon Scott, Borring’s electric guitar personality consistently shines – from a Jim Hall lushness in busy Imperfect Circumstances to the free-spirited dreaminess of A Lullaby which shimmers to Simpson’s tremulant piano washes and Scott’s brush-and-cymbal coloration (a drummer who consistently shades even the subtlest original music with focused, balmlike expression). Interesting, too, to hear two different interpretations from the Silent Storm release – Fable and April Fools, both with particularly effusive piano spotlights and the strong bass presence of Dave Whitford.

Borring’s London Magic (complete with recurring chordal motifs echoing the since-silenced hour chimes of Big Ben) is a positive and buoyant treasure, with crystalline solo-line improv supported so skilfully by his band; and turn up the volume for the romantically ornamented, unaccompanied guitar opening of Hoagy Carmichael’s evergreen Skylark which, it turns out, is just the prelude to almost nine minutes of rapturous, restrained, six-string beauty.

A pleasure to listen in on Kristian Borring and colleagues, on-stage, right there in their element. – AP REVIEWS (2017)

credits

released September 15, 2017

Musicians:
Kristian Borring - GUITAR
Rick Simpson - PIANO (except 5)
Dave Whitford - BASS
Jon Scott - DRUMS

Recorded live at Vortex Jazz Club, London, November 2016
All Compositions by Kristian Borring, except "Skylark" by Hoagy Carmichael
Recording Engineered by Alex Bonney
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Bonney
Artwork Photography by Monika S. Jakubowska
Artwork Design by Kristian Borring

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