Babel records are to release trumpeter Nick Smart’s new album Tower Casa on 21 October. Released as a digital-only download album in the first instance, tracks are ‘Tower Casa', ‘Kind Folk’, ‘Todi or not Todi’, ‘Candela’, ‘Round the Round it All’, ‘Everybody’s Else’s Song’, based on a Kenny Wheeler composition, and ‘MoTilda’. Trogon are Smart with Troyka guitarist Chris Montague; pianist Kishon Khan, best known for his work with Arun Ghosh and Motimba; bassist Jimmy Martinez; conguero Oreste Noda (both the latter also Motimba); and drummer Dave Hamblett, who debuted last year with Light at Night. Smart is also known as the head of the jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music, and has performed with JTQ, Trish Clowes, and conducts Troykestra. Trogon play Café Bar, Symphony Hall in Birmingham on 8 November http://www.thsh.co.uk/event/jazzlines-free-gigs-nick-smarts-trogon-13
Download tracks from Tower Casa at http://babellabel.co.uk