Ed Jones battles his bandmates

The Guardian, 21 April 2001

By James Griffiths

Mylläri favoured short, glowing phrases while Jones threw the kitchen sink into his solos, plundering every register of the instrument and constructing dizzyingly long legato runs, his tone tender and elegiac.

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See also:

Damon Brown/ Jon Gee (The Guardian, 14 June 2001)
The art of falling in love by Ed Jones
Polar Jazz: European jazz redefined by Chris Parker

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