24th September 2011: Get out and see Mark McKnights touring band before it’s too late! + Great Reviews for ‘Do or Die’

Mark McKnight’s touring group featuring Seamus Blake is currently on a extensive tour (dates in the events section), and this live review confirms that if they are in your area, and you are into great live music, you should definitely get out and see them!   Here’s a great live review of them live in Cardiff CLICK HERE— and they’ve been getting similar reactions across the country (from the same site here’s the actual album review click HERE)… Bands like these aren’t touring too much on these shores, so get out and see them when they do… 🙂

Also, reprinted below is a great review from the Guardians’ John Fordham:

The Guardian, Thursday 22 September 2011:

Young Irish guitarist Mark McKnight doesn’t just content himself with the same old jazz and blues licks associated with the classic guitar and Hammond organ setup of the 1960s, he plays a lot less heatedly – imagine Hammond soul played by the West Coast Cool School. Much of Do or Die is stealthy and quiet, right from the opening episodes in which James Maddren‘s rimshots tick behind guitar chords and impressionistic organ sounds before saxophonist Seamus Blake’s bleak tenor tone introduces the theme. On the standard Bewitched, Ross Stanley’s organ sounds as if it’s ushering in a sombre church congregation and Blake is in Wayne Shorter mode. Only the churning Tease really snaps the band out of a low-lights mood. But it’s all superbly played, unexpectedly original, and definitely grows on you.