Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Horn of plenty from the protean Jim Rattigan
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Jim Rattigan, Thomas Gould and Liam Noble
Triplicity
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Strong Tea
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FRENCH horn player Jim Rattigan took a very different route to becoming a jazz virtuoso. Born in 1960, his musical progress as a young musician eventually found him playing in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in his late twenties but then he broke through into jazz.
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In 2014 he made Triplicity, an album of inspired jazz musicianship with violinist Thomas Gould and the brilliantly versatile pianist Liam Noble, with all eleven compositions by Rattigan.
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