Reviews 2011

”Branded is full of powerful, affecting, superbly played music.”
All About Jazz

“Truly amazing music-making”
Lance Liddle, Be-Bop Spoken Here

“A really joyful album”
Peter Bevan, The Northern Echo

“Teeming with ideas, imagination and superb playing. Top stuff.”
Rob Adams, The Herald

“I can't think of anything not to enjoy about this inventive & virile music.”
Martin Bright, UK Jazz Radio

“Branded is performed with such energy and such accuracy that the excitement is hard to hide”
Peter Bacon, The Jazz Breakfast

“Their consistently clever arrangements and compositions are both brilliantly conceived and succinct, with nothing outstaying its welcome”
Kenny Mathieson, The Scotsman

“One of those rare records which simultaneously manages to be musically sophisticated and sheer good fun”
Tom Shearer ‘Byas’d Opinion’

" . . epitomises the power and skill that characterise the rest of a richly varied and absorbing programme."
Chris Parker, London Jazz

“A wonderfully playful CD from a group of musicians who prove that it's possible to make jazz with a healthy dollop of fun!”
Stephen Duffy, BBC Radio Scotland ‘The Jazz House’