Emma Rawicz is a British saxophonist who has been remarkably busy since 2021, winning Jazz Newcomer of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, a Drake YolanDa award and becoming a BBC Young Musician Jazz Award finalist. She was also nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the Jazz FM Awards. Paintbox is her fifth record and the fourth for the ACT Music label.
“Cowboys and Aliens” opens the record with a repetitive riff that would not be out of place in a Steve Reich piece, which is perhaps an intentional cowboy reference. It soon opens out into a fascinating period of interplay between the quartet, with Rawicz pushing them to greater exploration and intensity until suddenly everything jerks to a halt, leaving just Elliot Galvin’s…

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