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BETWEEN LINES is the second album from Jonathan Bratoëff, a London based guitarist and composer from France. The band features Seb Rochford and Pete Wareham who along with Jonathan are members of London’s award winning F-IRE collective. Jonathan, Pete and Seb studied at The School for Improvisational Music in New York with musicians Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi and Jason Moran. The Jonathan Bratoëff Quartet has developed a unique sound and vibe characterised by raw emotional intensity, loose interaction and tight arrangements and themes. This is the cream of young UK talent - all band leaders and composers in their own right (Pete with Acoustic Ladyland and Seb with Polar Bear); and already well established and in demand on the UK jazz scene. The quartet has performed at all of the main London venues as well as the Ealing Jazz Festival, and has also toured in France and Spain. BETWEEN LINES is released to coincide with the Exhibition Road Music Day on 21st June 2005 where Jonathan can be seen performing on the F-IRE stage in Hyde Park. "Bratoëff's compositions look to hard bop and M-Base for inspiration but are utterly unique" - Jazzwise
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Between Lines (F-ire)
4/5 Stars
Bratoeff is a young French guitarist living in London who has, in recent years, become a significant figure in the eclectically creative F-ire Collective movement of multi-genre instrumentalists, singers and dancers. Between Lines is Bratoeff's second album for F-ire, a headlong and confident contemporary-bop set in which the guitarist is joined by Acoustic Ladyland's Pete Wareham on tenor sax and Seb Rochford on drums, and Tom Mason on upright bass. The tunes crackle with invention. Wareham adopts a tumultuously fast-moving Michael Brecker-like sound on the uptempo pieces and an affectingly fragile one on the ballads. Bratoeff's brittle phrasing and rhythmic energy put him up there with leading UK guitarists such as Mike Outram, Phil Robson and Mike Walker. And Seb Rochford's drumming offers new turns in the most familiar of grooves. Some of the music has a dreamy Latin-American samba feel; some explores slow-moving minimalist long-note patterns over ambiguous pulses and then heats up; some works like a Joe Lovano ballad session; some is like a whirling Coltrane lament with an early John McLaughlin rhythmic pungency under it. Some of it is so rhythmically ingenious you'd feel happy just to let the grooves go on and on. Subtle, spontaneous, informed contemporary jazz.
JOHN FORDHAM
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet ****
Between Lines (F-IRE CD07)
THIS substantial disc pairs one of London's most criminally unsung guitarists, Frenchman Jonathan Bratoeff, with one of its busiest tenor-saxophonist, Pete Wareham.
Better known for his rabblerousing pyrotechnics with Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear, Wareham shows a more tender side here, playing Bratoeff 's originals with care and soloing reflectively.
Bratoeff skilfully mixes chordal and single-string improvisation, but his composing does not yet match the maturity of his playing. The ballad Mood Change shows his potential, but a couple of well-chosen standards - always the acid test of a soloist - would have been welcome.
Bassist Tom Mason and ubiquitous drummer Seb Rochford round out a stylish group that deserves the sort of exposure Wareham's other groups enjoy.
JACK MASSARIK
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