Charlotte Keeffe / Right Here, Right Now Quartet - ALIVE! in the studio

"The radical spirit of offhand precarity which radiates throughout this session frequently bubbles over into an effervescent sense of the imperative to explore. In a word? Fearless." - PRESTO MUSIC

"A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive.” Keeffe and her quartet nailed it." - Sammy Stein, FREE JAZZ BLOG

"Charlotte Keeffe is rapidly developing a reputation as one of UK’s finest improvisers, and ALIVE! in the studio, her second album on the Discus label, amply confirms this reputation." - Tony Dudley-Evans

For her second Discus Music release, Charlotte has convened her regular working quartet to explore open ended versions of her compositions which form the basis of their live set. Captured with energy and clarity in the studio, here we have 60 minutes of real group interaction where the music from each player is balanced equally within the total group sound.

Charlotte writes: "Charlotte Keeffe’s Right Here, Right Now Quartet featuring Ashley John Long, Ben Handysides and Moss Freed, is a breeding ground for squelchy, sploshy, splashy Sound Brush playing - music-making! …Overtly over-blowing, splitting, splattering, squirming, squeaking and squealing out ALIVE! Howling and hooting, chomping and chaffing… Dusty, distorted, flimsy, fragile, manic, ghostly, guttural sound strokes rip through whirlwinds and whirlpools of wholesome gooey-sound-dough! A turbulent tease, staggering, swaying, abruptly plunging into intentional vagueness… A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive. Right Here, Right Now. It is as it is…"

Charlotte Keeffe - Sound Brush / trumpet, flugelhorn and compositions
Ashley John Long - double bass
Ben Handysides - drums
Moss Freed - guitar