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Paul Booth Quintet
Tuesday 18
Paul
Booth comes highly recommended; Ronnie Scott once apparently
compared him with the great Tubby Hayes.
On his originals, which are based in gutsy hard bop but which have a few welcome rhythmic wrinkles in them, he revealed a rich, almost fruity tenor tone and a penchant for relatively straightforward but full-bodied, swaggering solos that must have stood him in good stead when he played with classy 1960s pop legends such as the Drifters and the Supremes.
His band, spearheaded by Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum and pianist Mike Gorman, combined subtle responsiveness with hard-swinging vitality, and demonstrated considerable versatility by going into more thoughtful, spacy mode on Joni Mitchell's classic 'Both Sides Now', the unadorned tune of which provided an affecting vehicle for Booth, but which (like the vast majority of modern rock/folk songs) proved slightly problematic as an improvising vehicle.
Given more amenable material, though (particularly his vigorous originals), Booth is a powerful, inventive player with a keen ear for the textural possibilities and tension that can be built into solos.
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