![]() The seductively silky opener "Another Weirdo" reminds the listener of the sumptuousness of Joe Zawinul's elegant "74 Miles Away" and, in common with the five other tracks on the album penned by Presencer, demonstrates that this virtuoso trumpeter -his magnificently soaring flugelhorn solo punctuates the skilful arrangement -also has great compositional skills too. He lives in Copenhagen and is trumpet soloist with the world famous Danish Radio Big Band, hence the recording of Groove Travels with the DRBB, but interestingly this is only the fourth album under his own name. He's also a noted academic, formerly Head of Jazz studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1999 to 2010 and currently Head of the Brass Department at Berlin's Jazz Institute. He's played in bands led by Stan Tracey and Charlie Watts but perhaps his most well-known role occurred at age 18 when US3 commissioned him to play a trumpet solo on a re-working of Cantaloupe Island ("Cantaloop Flip-Fantasia") on the band's huge-selling Blue Note album Hand On The Torch. ![]() Along with other young talented UK musicians such as Courtney Pine and Tommy Smith, Presencer was part of a new wave of British jazz. Something of a child prodigy Gerard Presencer became a member of Britain's acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1983 at a mere eleven years of age and NYJO's youngest trumpeter. Ballad or Tango of the Misunderstood (7:10) ![]()
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