Paul Dunmall - Away With Troubles And Anxieties! (2025) [Hi-Res]

Paul Dunmall and Discus Music are clearly on a roll together as Paul delivers his sixth album in two years to the label. And what is especially nice is how each of them sits outside Paul's free blowing music, concentrating instead on compositions for small and medium groups of great players, many of the Birmingham based.

Away With Troubles And Anxieties! is performed by mainly the same line up which delivered 2024's Red Hot Ice, but this time with Paul's writing more sharply honed, and with producer Archer given free rein to shape the pieces - which were played with maximum spontaneity in the studio and are mainly first takes - into the carefully structured suite heard on the finished release.

This medium size group is absolute dynamite, and we cut them while they were hot!

Paul Dunmall – tenor, C and Bb soprano saxophones, penny whistle
Percy Pursglove – trumpet
Richard Foote – trombone
Alicia Gardener-Trejo – baritone saxophone
Martin Archer – Eb saxophones (3,6,9,10,12)
James Birkett – electric guitar
Andrew Woodhead – electric piano, organ
Glenn Leach – piano
Corey Mwamba – vibraphone (3,6,10)
John Pope – double bass (except 10)
Jim Bashford – drums
James Owston – double bass (10)
John Ball - tanpura (11)

Tracklist:
1 Away With Troubles And Anxieties!
2 It's Not Always As It Seems......
3 Awaken The Coiled Serpent
4 Certain Uncertainties
5 .....But Sometimes It Is
6 Freedom To Follow
7 Reawaken The Coiled Serpent
8 Have Seen, Haven't Seen
9 I Can Help With That
10 Blues For Truth
11 No Bad Karma Today
12 Buzz Me
13 Away With Troubles And Anxieties!.