Paul Dunmall Ensemble - It’s A Matter Of Fact (2023)

Paul Dunmall Ensemble
It’s A Matter Of Fact
2023 - Discus Music: 148CD
https://www.discus-music.org/cp-catalogue/148-paul-dunnall/
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-matter-of-fact-148cd-2023

* Paul Dunmall : tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
* Martin Archer : alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, harmonica
* Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet, flugelhorn
* Richard Foote : trombone
* Julie Tippetts : voice
* Steven Saunders : electric guitar
* James Owston : double bass
* Jim Bashford : drums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dunmall
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-dunmall-mn0000025588

Recorded by Olly Sansom at Sansom Studios, Birmingham,
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, September 12, 2022.

Reviews
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By Stephen Graham
https://www.marlbank.net/posts/paul-dunmall-ensemble-it-s-a-matter-of-fact-discus

[...]

On It's a Matter of Fact where Dunmall in a highly arranged approach eschews
the anarchy of some elements of the free sphere to place his sax in a
kaleidoscopic blend with Martin Archer, Charlotte Keefe and Richard Foote in
the horn section - and Julie Tippetts' voice is the real magnetic and
super-wild element weaving in and out marvellously stealing the show at every
turn.

The drummer here who steers the sound so well is Jim Bashford who has been
tremendous in recent years with Xhosa Cole (as has bassist James Owston - the
pair are on K​(​no​)​w Them, K​(​no​)​w Us). Steve Saunders' electric guitar is less
obvious in the turmoil of rhythms. It's A Matter of Fact is best when it is at
its most raucous as on the brassy push and pull of 'Don't Ask Why' and next
track in the lashing together of 'Latu' / 'Reunion' when Tippetts goes even
more operatic than elsewhere. An extremely satisfying release on so many levels
it's one of the best UK originated albums of 2023 so far. Final word look in as
you listen hard because the crisp and highly graphic cover art, so
close-your-eyes woeful on many other clangers in the idiom in existence out
there, is also ace.

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By Discus Music
https://www.discus-music.org/cp-catalogue/148-paul-dunnall/

By Chris Baber
https://jazzviews.net/paul-dunmall-ensemble-its-a-matter-of-fact/