Jazz uk
Aug/Sept 2011
Jan Kopinski's Reflektor
MIRRORS

It's been many years and several magazines since I shared a pizza and the weakest beer with Jan Kopinski's Pinski Zoo in Cannes (long story) and the saxman/composer's music has taken many interesting turns since then, most recently in the form of 'Mirrors'(33 Records/JSL) in which his current band Reflektor (which includes his son and daughter; surely the Dankworths of the musical slipstream) performs a movingly personal, introspective chamber/jazz suite commissioned by Opera North Projects as a mixed-media piece and recorded under the Jazz Services Recording Support scheme. Profound and sincere, the music wears its devotional/folk influences with style and grace.

(RT)