Tim Whitehead - Colour Beginnings

Groundbreaking album from British Composer Awards nominee Tim Whitehead, inspired by the colour sketches of British painter JMW Turner. Includes 16 page artwork wallet.

This groundbreaking and beautifully presented album features music written while Tim was the first ever musician artist in residence at Tate Britain. Whitehead's music always stands on its own feet. His bands are consistently fine examples of attractively song-rooted composing and cutting-edge postbop improv, and his collaborations with Liam Noble inspire some of the gifted pianist's most memorable recorded playing. But the triggers here are transcribed from Whitehead's original solo improvisations recorded while viewing Turner's work - particularly the painter's fastest and most intuitive sketches and watercolours. Some of the music unfolds in twisting, long-lined themes, some in softly exhaled solo-sax reveries; there are skittish dancing melodies and speculative group conversations that suggest Wayne Shorter's musings. Noble often echoes Whitehead or plays in unison - and, like all the performers, he plays as deeply inside these pieces as if he were as personally involved as their originator. John Fordham The Guardian