Paul Dunmall New Quartet

Featuring: John Edwards, Mark Sanders

"In the quartet on this album, Paul Dunmall has returned to his first love: totally free improvisation based on interaction between the four players. Many aspects of Paul Dunmall’s playing are apparent on this album. His approach is to listen very carefully to what is happening around him and to react to it. If you see him play live, you will see how he concentrates on the flow of the music, often stepping back and allowing the music to develop before choosing the right moment to enter or re-enter. His solos always develop original melodic lines, free of the clichés of both straightahead and free jazz.

The other three musicians make equally important contributions to the music. Liam Noble has a highly original approach to free improvisation based on short melodic ideas and clusters of notes that weave in and out of Paul Dunmall’s lines. John Edwards and Mark Sanders are longstanding partners in free music and they create intense swirling rhythms that react with and set off the improvisations of Paul Dunmall and Liam Noble. They are, in fact, equal partners in the quartet, free to influence the development and flow of the music." - Tony Dudley Evans