WORK MONEY DEATH - The Space In Which The Uncontrollable..

In 2017, saxophonist Tony Burkill asked musical collaborator Neil Innes to put together a backing band to play on his debut album, Work Money Death. Now officially a musical collective named in honour of the album, Burkill and his band returned to the studio last year – in a socially distanced manner, with each player being recorded separately, one after another – to record two epic slabs of spiritual jazz inspired by the works of Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane. Both the expressive ‘Dusk’, which makes great use of tampura and harmonium and well as some stellar improvisation, and the more laidback and picturesque ‘Dawn’ are really rather good and should delight anyone who loves lengthy but focused jazz excursions.