The steady, incremental rise of UK-based vibraphonist Jonny Mansfield continues with the release of his latest album, Light Finds a Way In, an album as ambitious as the ones that preceded it. Issued on Edition Records in 2019, Elftet, his auspicious debut, saw him fronting an eleven-piece ensemble. The Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize winner followed that with The Air in Front of You (on Resonant Postcards, which he founded in 2023), an album that boldly integrated strings into a jazz context, the result a heady chamber-jazz fusion, and then Quartet! Live at Pizza Express, where a slightly smaller outfit became an exciting live conduit for his vision. With Light Finds a Way In, Mansfield presents a sequel of sorts to The Air in Front of You by reinstating…

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