Critically acclaimed singer Brigitte Beraha, best known for her work with the band Babelfish, and Parliamentary Jazz Award-winning pianist John Turville, after touring his trio album Conception in the autumn, are to release a new duo album called Red Skies this month. Recorded in Italy at Udine’s ArteSuono studio, their standards-dominated album, which features veteran saxophonist Bobby Wellins on bookending tracks, numbers a dozen tracks opening with ‘Dindi’ then ‘My One and Only Love’ ‘Les feuilles mortes’, Chico Buarque’s ‘Beatriz’ sung in Portuguese, ‘This Heart of Mine’, sole Beraha original ‘Elephant on Wheels’, ‘Desafinado’, ‘It Might As Well Be Spring’, ‘Night Game’, ‘Moon and Sand’, ‘They Can’t Take That Away From Me’, and ‘A Time For Love’. They play Pizza Express Jazz Club on 17 February, the eve of the album’s release, that’s the Soho club where Turville recently peformed to launch the Shearing Hour in January. Released on CD by the new E17 Jazz Records (E17 a reference to the London postcode for Walthamstow where Turville and Italian-born Beraha are part of a burgeoning local jazz scene), and for download by Sussex-based Splashpoint, the pair will be joined at the Pizza Express by special guest Scottish saxophone legend Bobby Wellins, famed for his work alongside Stan Tracey on 1960s classic Under Milk Wood. SG

Brigitte Beraha above can also be heard on the recently released Hullabaloo by Dave Manington’s Riff Raff: http://marlbank.tumblr.com/post/38619403307/1678