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...As snippets of melody wound this way and that, pianist Micah Thomas emphasised changes in mood and bassist Matt Brewer twinned double bass thrust with Sumbry’s bass drum beats that were so powerful they...
...Bass and drums coaxed and cajoled with focus and power. As the suite unfolded, a bustle of rimshots locked into figured bass and a complex repeating pattern had a hypnotic effect....
...Wilkins digs in, pianist Micah Thomas’s voicings are rich and Daryl Johns, solid on walking bass, knits his lines with the subtle rhythmic interplay of Kweku Sumbry’s drums....
...Micah Thomas recorded this live piano trio set in March last year in a New York basement club....
...All four musicians were busily building up club and touring credits before lockdown, but only the exuberant pianist Micah Thomas has released an album so far....
...Michael Jerome’s limber drumming pushes the song impulsively forward; the bass rumble from Taras Prodaniuk sounds like approaching thunder, and Thompson’s guitar flickers and flashes before reaching one...
...Iestyn Davies, as the countertenor Micah, and Neal Davies, as bass Manoa, sang as well as his sympathetic allies and the ebullient Christopher Purves made a larger-than-life opponent as Harapha....
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