Matthew Halsall

• 2 LP SET

• INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

Manchester based, DJ, bandleader and trumpeter Matthew Halsall is one of the UK's brightest talents. A gifted trumpeter with a beautiful, expressive tone, his music draws on his love of the transcendental, spiritual and modal jazz of Alice and John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, as well as the glories of '60s British jazz. His previous albums Sending My Love and Colour Yes released on his own Gondwana label have won him a legion of fans across the world and acclaim from the likes of Gilles Peterson and Radio 3's Late Junction, MOJO, BBC Music Magazine and even BBC 6 Music.

His third album On The Go is a heartfelt love letter to the jazz of the late '50s and early '60s. Inspired by the evocative sounds of Miles Davis' soundtrack to the Louis Malle film 'Lift To The Scaffold' and the legendary early '60s recordings of Art Blakey and Max Roach the album is nostalgic but always soulful. However, while Halsall's elegiac music is imbued with a sense of history, the young trumpeter and DJ nevertheless brings a contemporary bounce to his music ensuring that his music breathes with a personality all it's own.

PERSONNEL:

• Matthew Halsall - trumpet
• Adam Fairhall - piano
• Gavin Barras - bass
• Gaz Hughes - drums
• Rachael Gladwin - harp on track 4

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• 01. Music For A Dancing Mind
• 02. Song For Charlie

• SIDE B
• 01. The End Of Dukkha
• 02. Samatha

• SIDE C
• 01. The Journey Home
• 02. The Move
• 03. Only You (*)

• SIDE D
• 01. Singing Everyday (*)
• 02. Breathless (*)

• BONUS TRACKS