Journey to Where, by Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley

Live version of Ashford Days at Wigmore Hall from April 2021

Journey to Where

by Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley

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peteren33b Trish Clowes and Ross Stanley’s Journey to Where is a masterpiece. It’s going to be the album of 2024.

Superb programming of tunes offering variety, originality and heritage taking account of the British Jazz Tradition, the wider jazz tradition and all great music.

Trish and Ross play with taste, sensitivity and dynamism. They provide a perfect tonal balance and play their asses off. If you’ve seen them live you’ll know what I mean. If not get yourself to a gig now.

This album is knockout.

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6-panel sleeve on lovely textured uncoated board, with the first 50 signed and numbered by Trish and Ross, with original artwork by Tríona Milne

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This special double LP will be manufactured by Optimal in Germany, on beautiful heavyweight 180g black vinyl in a full gatefold sleeve. Trish and Ross will sign and number the first 100 in this limited run of just 300.

(With the costs of such a production being rather high, we're aiming for a minimum pre-order of 100 before we go to production in the early spring, to release in May alongside some special UK tour dates. Of course, refunds will be sent in the unlikely event we don't hit our pre-orders, but you wouldn't let that happen would you?!)

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1.	Ashford Days 05:10 video	info	buy track
2.	Decently Ripped 04:29 video	info	buy track
3.	Tres Palabras 05:39	info	buy track
4.	Avoidance 06:39	info	buy track
5.	Prelude to a Kiss 07:02	info	buy track
6.	Trois Preludes et Fugues, Op. 7 No. 3, Prelude in G Minor 06:38	info	buy track
7.	Sarah 09:28	lyrics	buy track
Music by Trish Clowes
8.	Gloucester Service 06:33	info	buy track
9.	The Month of January 05:51	info	buy track

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" ... vital music full of swing, emotion and atmosphere ... a deep understanding, a musical bond, a little bit of magic perhaps."
★★★★½ - IrishTimes

"... clearly the duo is a meeting of minds and prodigious ability, the past learning and absorptions etched evocatively worn lightly."
★★★★ - Marlbank

"“wo of the absolute masters we have in this country … so deeply devoted to their craft as improvisers."
- Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2

"The absorbing and seamless eclecticism of Journey to Where is a record worth going back to, the moods and atmosphere it conjures seem to evolve on each subsequent listen."
★★★★★ - UK Vibe

Acclaimed saxophonist Trish Clowes joins long-term collaborator pianist/composer Ross Stanley for their captivating new duo album Journey to Where, recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, featuring the duo’s inventive originals alongside personal favourites from Wayne Shorter to Marcel Dupré. Releasing March 2024 on Stoney Lane Records, on International Women's Day.

Performing and collaborating together for a number of years, the duo’s debut has been a long time in the making, and features four originals by Clowes and Stanley, alongside intriguing arrangements of music dedicated to their respective heroes, Wayne Shorter and John Taylor. “This is the first time Ross has released his own music on a recording, and I think it’s the first time I’ve recorded standards for one of my own albums too,” Clowes explains. “We decided to start developing music that was distinct from other playing contexts, so we could record an album that had a mixture of our own tunes, amongst some important music for both of us.”

The album was recorded in July 2021, despite the “incredibly loud impromptu roadworks” outside the hall, which happily didn’t make the final cut. At the heart of their ever-evolving programme of music lies interpretations of a Marcel Dupré prelude (Prelude III from Trois Preludes et Fugues) and Herbert Howells’ Gloucester Service – two beloved works from Stanley’s time as an organ scholar at Marlborough College. “I remember being mesmerized by the harmony, particularly when hearing it in the wonderful acoustics of a church,” says Stanley. “The unique acoustics at Wigmore Hall are the perfect environment in which to record this.”

Stanley, who has toured with a stellar-line up of artists, from Tom Jones to the BBC Concert Orchestra, also penned the piece Ashford Days, in homage to the late John Taylor. “He continues to be a constant source of inspiration for me,” he explains. “We share a great love for Bill Evans and also certain aspects of the classical repertoire (although the comparisons probably end there!). It always intrigued me how John developed his playing over the years into an instantly recognisable voice on the piano. The title is a nod to John's ‘Ambleside Days’ and also Ashford, in Kent, where he lived for a period.”

The ever-inventive Clowes already has a number of successful albums both under her own name and her band, MY IRIS, with recent notable commissions including writing for the London Sinfonietta, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (for the BBC Proms 2022), Orchestra of the Swan and BBC Radio 3. She was inspired by Wayne Shorter’s playing on a bootleg recording she came across from 1965 at the Village Vanguard for her own track, Decently Ripped. “I have it from a reliable source that ‘decently ripped’ was a nickname of Wayne’s, owing to his calm demeanour at after-show events back in the day.” Clowes’ piece Sarah, meanwhile, is titled after Sarah Gilbert, the vaccinologist, written at a time when a much-needed social life, and space for expression, was beginning to resume across the country. The composition uses specific saxophone multiphonics as a framework for the writing across the whole form, with the close of the track finishing with an extended improvisation from the duo in response to the material.

A busy spring of touring beckons for the much-lauded pair, taking them back to where the record began at Wigmore Hall (where Clowes is also an associate artist) – the album launching there in March on International Women’s Day. Then onwards to St George’s Bristol, and the Cheltenham & Manchester Jazz Festivals – the Cheltenham appearance being a part of a run of dates with the American trumpeter Dave Douglas, in a new quintet co-led by Douglas and Clowes, with Stanley, guitarist Chris Montague and drummer Joel Barford.

Journey to Where is released on 8th March on CD and all digital platforms with Birmingham-based label Stoney Lane Records, followed by a limited-edition double LP release in May.

credits

released March 8, 2024

Trish Clowes—tenor saxophone
Ross Stanley—piano

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, England, on 7-8th July 2021

Recording engineer—Chris Kelly
Mixing & mastering — Chris Kelly
Cover artwork—Tríona Milne
Cover design—Keith Dodds

Stoney Lane Records #SLR1989

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Trish Clowes London, UK

Saxophonist & composer Trish Clowes has been described as “an improviser to be reckoned with” (Downbeat Magazine) and “one of the most agile and original jugglers of improv and adventurous composition to have appeared in the UK in recent times” (The Guardian). Clowes is currently an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall. Background artwork by Tríona Milne. Profile photo by Chris Kelly ... more

shows

May 3

Pizza Express Jazz Club - Soho

London, UK
May 3

Pizza Express Jazz Club - Soho

London, UK
May 4

Parabola Arts Centre

Cheltenham, UK
May 5

Mermaid Arts Centre

Bray, Ireland
May 24

St Ann's Church

Manchester, UK

discography

Journey to Where

Mar 2024
Wild Swimming

Nov 2023
My Iris

Nov 2020
Ninety Degrees Gravity

Nov 2020
Time

Oct 2020
Improv 252

Apr 2020
MY IRIS Live!

Apr 2020
Pocket Compass

Nov 2014

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