Rob lavers's Blog

recording new music

roblavers — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:55:33 +0000

Just had a great session recording 7 new tunes in Host recording studios. The new line up features Stuart McCallum on guitar, Pete Turner on double bass and Simon Roth on drums…..we are all really pleased at how the session went and owe a big thankyou to Nigel Slee of Jazz Yorkshire and Alistair McClaurin our wicked sound engineer. The album will be ready in a couple of months and we aim to start gigging regularly across the UK

See some footage of us recording on http://www.jazzyorkshire.org/ (demo in a day blog)

Listen to extracts of recent recordings that we made in Host studio – 31 March 2009:

Andalucia, Ethiopia, Argentina, Gibralta, The Himalayas, Scandinavian Song

second album small creature

roblavers — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:30:15 +0000

small creature, Rob Lavers

listen to a track from the album

Snolly guster

Rob Lavers – Small Creature
Review Jazz Wise April 2008 ***
Robert Shore

Lavers’ second album as a leader is a showcase for his impressive talents both as multi-instrumentalist and as a composer.

The former young jazz musician of the year, runner up went to art school and appropriately enough his writing has a certain painterly quality, with the leaders soloing adding fine impressionistic detail to expansive self-penned landscape-style sketches like the opener, ‘The Snolly Guster’. But above all small creature demonstrates Lavers’ versatility from the churning swing of ‘Mask’ to the emotive, tumbling tumult of ‘Missing the World’ or the cocktail-bar bop of ‘Skoochin for Skach’.

The more he and his band members stretch their sound palette, the more they engage: ‘Song for Baudelaire’ features a propulsive, stuttering opening riff from the rhythm section that contrasts effectively with Lavers’ sinuously smooth-flowing sax part, while the martial snap of Laurent Robin’s snare and Jamil Sheriff’s hypnotic driving piano part, repeat the trick on the closer, ‘Nimes’.

jazz saxophonists updates

roblavers — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:12:08 +0000

welcome to my blog…..I am a jazz saxophonist and composer. Influences include John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins and Steve Lacy

stretch

roblavers — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:23:35 +0000

debut album stretch

This is my debut album featuring the quartet- Zoltan Dekany, John Perry, Jamil Sheriff

Jazz Wise *** Stretch, Rob Lavers quartet

“Lavers comes across as a strong and resourceful performer on both tenor and
soprano, and the interplay between the musicians has a nicely focused sense
of mutual understanding.
Lavers provides all of the compositions, and they offer an interesting variety of moods and approaches, cross referencing a series of different generic influences in the process, from classical sources as well as jazz and latin music. These originals furnish plenty of scope for creative responses.” Kenny Mathieson,