Matthew Halsall – Colour Yes (Special Edition)

Description

Drawing 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, Halsall’s music is
thoughtful, elegiac and explorative. But while imbued with a sense of history, the young
trumpeter and DJ nevertheless brings a contemporary bounce to his beautiful music
and his regular sessions at Matt & Phreds and recent concerts at the Luminaire and
Ronnie Scott’s in London (alongside Keith Tippet and Nostalgia 77) are notable for
attracting a cool, youthful crowd alongside the more traditional jazzers. Indeed Halsall’s
music has a timeless quality that means there is nothing dated about his finely-tuned
explorations of the music he loves and it’s this love of the music that gives his music such
a special hue.