Welcomed sleep yesterday then greeted Friday with an LP I first heard, having borrowed it from Cambridge Library during a brief sojourn there in my youth: Eréndira is the first album recorded by the British jazz quartet, First House. It was released by ECM. The album presents a studio performance of leader and saxophonist Ken Stubbs with Django Bates on piano, Mick Hutton on bass and Martin France on drums, recorded in July, 1985 in Norway.
Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:
“A Day Away” starts as if awakening, those first rustlings of the morning flittering across France’s kit, Bates opening his eyes as butterfly’s wings to sunlight, while Hutton takes our first steps, breathing in the saxophone’s crisp air...a beautiful, seemingly forgotten album from a quartet of musicians who tended to involve themselves in more progressive acts. Here, they take it back home. Don’t pass this one by."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ffKlpKcVY&list=OLAK5uy_nhLOzgP4zFQlqNCiRfDWWJ1vPmqslyilQ
