Rob Hall

Rob Hall

Sopranino, Soprano, Tenor saxophones, Clarinet

Chick Lyall

Piano, Harpsichord, Electronics

Rob Hall

Sopranino, Soprano, Tenor saxophones, Clarinet

Chick Lyall

Piano

For their second FMR release, Rob Hall (saxophones & clarinet) and Chick Lyall (piano) draw from a wide range of sources ranging from lyrical melodic driven improvisation through post bop, classical chamber music and touching on Celtic traditional music. Includes two movements from Hall's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. This new recording was funded by the Scottish Arts Council and shows this fine duo continuing their musical journey between composition and improvisation, poetic lyricism combined with exploratory jazz soloing.

'A winning demonstration of the duo's great empathy as performers. I'm looking forward to their third collaboration already' (Jazzwise)

'Rob Hall and Chick Lyall enthralled audiences with original music that was at times highly expressive, free and fluid, beautifully romantic and exquisitely technical' (Shetland Times)

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Rob Hall

Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor saxophones, Clarinet

Chick Lyall

Piano

The Beaten Path is the much anticipated first release from the Scottish-based contemporary duo of Rob Hall (saxophones, clarinet) and Chick Lyall (piano). Recorded during March 2005 in a fabulous concert room in Edinburgh, both musicians contribute compositions which are interspersed with a series of short, free improvisations. Their expressive range merges jazz, contemporary classical and Celtic sonorities, and this new CD recording exemplifies the fluid and engaging language these two fine musicians have developed over a two year period of performing together. Rob Hall & Chick Lyall have performed together thoughout the UK from concert halls to ceilidh rooms and are equally at home in jazz and multi-arts venues.

"By turns flowing, lyrical, staccato, barbed and witty ... a compositional awareness and a satisfying mutual understanding in the freer passages" (The Herald, concert review)

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Rob Hall - Saxophones

Chris Grieve - Trombone

Mike Dunning - double bass

Paul Mills - drums

Recorded in 2002 at RSAMD Scotland UK

Freewheelers are a young Scottish group with Rob Hall (ss,ts), Chris Greive(tb), Mike Dunning (b) and Paul Mills (d). Although their opener, There Will Never Be Another You, readily acknowledges a lineage going back to the instrumentation and techniques of the Gerry Mulligan piano-less quartet, don't expect any young-fogeyisms. Freedom Jazz Dance is anchored by a volcanic funk beat and the frontline can't seem to get their superb ideas out fast enough. Joy Spring has a delicious lilt and a beautiful solo from Greive, and there's also a version of John Scofield's Softy that knocks spots off the guitarist's own. Rob Hall's originals are also highly intelligent and ooze personality - one for Sholto Byrnes to stick in his pipe and smoke.

Philip Clark (Jazz Review)

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