8th June 2012: Euan Burton with solid 4 star review from the Irish Times + exciting new live video from his recent UK Tour feat. Will Vinson!

Euan Burton’s album ‘Occurrences’ is his first for WWR and it’s making a big impact in the world creative music press for it’s conceptual purity and virtuosic performances by Will Vinson on alto sax, Steve Hamilton on piano/rhodes, WWR artist Mark McKnight on guitar, James Maddren on drums, and the leader Burton himself holding it down on bass.

Just in is a glowing 4 star review that’s so good we’re linking it HERE, and also reprinting it below. After the article is the new video that we’ve just added to Euan’s playlist on the WWR You Tube channel. It shows the band on their recent UK cd launch tour playing at the top of their game at the Jazz Bar.  Check it out!   To purchase ‘Occurrences’ click here.

Euan Burton Occurrences

by CORMAC LARKIN

Occurrences  Whirlwind Recordings ****

Scottish bassist and composer Euan Burton’s third album as leader is a perfect storm of the right musicians in the right frame of mind having the right compositions put in front of them. “I was trying to think like a film director”, says Burton, “developing a narrative, pacing it right for the audience and leaving space for the actors to make their roles their own”.

For his cast, Burton has recruited just about as good a band as could be sourced from amongst his peers: NY-based Londoner Will Vinson on alto saxophone, rising Belfast guitarist Mark McKnight, fellow Scot Steve Hamilton on piano and keyboards and up and coming English drummer James Maddren.

The result is a superbly judged recording, imbued with warmth and optimism, but played with the kind of utter conviction that, in jazz terms, is more American than European, bearing comparison with Brian Blade’s Fellowship band, Kurt Rosenwinkel’s groups and Ben Allison’s similarly suite-like narratives.

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Check out the new video from Euan’s tour with the band from the album!