8th September 2012: Jim Hart’s Cloudmakers Trio with Ralph Alessi gets a bumper crop of critical acclaim & 4 Star Guardian review. “A triumph from Whirlwind Recordings”

With only two day to go until his official worldwide release, Jim Hart and his debut WWR album ‘Cloudmakers Trio with Ralph Alessi: Live at the Pizza Express has just had a great showing in the press this week.  Hart’s album was recorded live from his new working band ‘The Cloudmakers Trios” inaugural tour which featured iconic trumputer Ralph Alessi, who turns out a spectacular performance on the album.  We’ve had 100% glowing reviews this last week from the Metro (pictured below) a news article in JazzWise magazine (pictured below, and look out for Jim’s upcoming featured article in their OCT edition), and great reviews from Bebop Spoken Here, the popular midlands based site Jazz Breakfast (which claims that Jim’s album is “A Triumph from Whirlwind Recordings”), and to round it out a 4 Star review from The Guardian which states the album is “clever, lyrical, immaculately performed contemporary jazz”.

Jim’s album launches in just 2 days worldwide, check out the album clips here, and hear why Jim is known as one of the most adventurous and skilled vibraphonist/composers working in creative music today.

Here’s the METRO review, followed by the SEPT newspiece from Jazzwise Magazine: