Together with saxophonist , keyboardists and , and trumpet player , flutist / synthesizer player Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne was cheered on by the music press as one of the new promises of the English jazz scene of 2018. However, The Shakedown proves that these critics can occasionally miss the point. The album contains nothing but nine improvisations about driving rhythms, in which the
… work of bassist is particularly striking. Unfortunately, his intense playing is offset by drummer who takes a sardonic delight in using every sixteenth measure to display his nervous drumming. Tenderlonious himself presents himself as a particularly mediocre flutist and also operates the synthesizer with little fuss. Still, The Shakedown has two outliers: the uptempo latin of Maria, and Red Sky At Night, where the band proves to be dynamic. (AD)more
