Led Bib Bring / Your Own

Led Bib
Bring Your Own
(Cuneiform)

Contemporary jazz has a reputation for being a formidably difficult kind of music, with its atonalism and shifting time changes. Well, I don’t know about that, but with Led Bib's spontaneous sense of fun and generously wide frame of musical references, ‘Bring Your Own' is a record that's easy to enjoy.
‘Service Stop Saviour’ has the feel of being a mysteriously lost jazz classic, with some impeccable Bebop playing, a sublime melody and brilliant improvisation at its disposal. Meanwhile, ‘Engine Room’ offers up some jazzified and angular prog rock: with its climaxes adorned with sleazy horns, it could almost be the soundtrack to some mad French New Wave film.
Later on ‘Little X’, the rich tonality and improvised nature of these horns gets crazier still, with some snake-charming saxophone shedding light on the song's otherwise shady temperament. As the growling, funky bass and brilliantly scatty drumming build up their irresistible rhythm, you get the idea that this is what being a beatnik must feel like – cool!
This is music that's so simply enjoyable even a child could dig it. Get into the groove!