Pianist Peter Edwards joined by Partikel’s Max Luthert on bass, and new generation drummer Moses Boyd, have recorded Safe and Sound engineered by Tony Platt who has worked extensively with Soweto Kinch among other leading jazz musicians in recent years. Edwards says: “It’s a self release that will coincide with a UK tour. Right now I’m getting the CD ready for manufacture and starting to approach venues. Lots to consider. So far everything is going well.” Preview tracks include the title track plus ‘Meet You in El Malecón’ led off by Luthert’s peppy bass and picked up by Edwards’ Abdullah Ibrahim-esque lines, and the ballad ‘South African Sunrise’ with its lovely theme opening up the trio and building into a bravura display by the pianist. Edwards has arranged Ellington’s ‘The Queen’s Suite' for the Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Orchestra, now known as Nu Cilvilisation, and during the NCO’s Stravinsky sound clash last year conducted the orchestra's performance of his ‘Blues Ostinata’ and arrangement of Steve Williamson’s ‘How High The Bird’ with its MBASE-like two-tenor twist. In 2011 Edwards released an EP for Platt’s high quality digital label Jazz Lotion with Max Luthert and Saleem Raman.

Peter Edwards pictured