Originally formed just over two decades ago as a side project while working with Ray Gelato the Jazz Dynamos are back! They worked with a number of different vocalists before Lucy Randell joined ten years ago and they haven’t looked back since.
They specialise in creating jazz re-arrangements of songs by an eclectic mix of
artists such as The Police, David Bowie, and Dolly Parton, to name just a few, but to call them “covers” would be to do them a woeful disservice. Far more than that, these are artistic re-imaginings of songs, and the breadth of the extensive repertoire is staggering.
The arrangements themselves, by Mark Adelman on keyboard are as exquisite as they are surprising, many of which include seamless mergers of seemingly
incompatible songs. A favourite of which includes a version of Pure Imagination with sections of Bowie’s Starman and musical motifs that shouldn’t work, but they do. Their arrangement takes ownership of the songs in such a way that refresh the original versions.
Lucy Randell: Vocals ; Stewart Curtis: Saxes; Mark Adelman: Keyboards; Anders Janes: Double Bass, Dominique Metz: Drums.