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More than 10 years after his fourth album, Meeting Ground, jazz trumpeter and writer Byron Wallen has released his new album Portrait featuring his band Four Corners. With Rob Luft , Paul Michael and Rod Youngs

Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, trumpeter and composer Wallen has travelled the world recording, teaching and performing alongside legendary musicians such as George Benson, Andrew Hill, Chaka Khan, Ingrid Laubrock.

Conceived when sitting in the central square in Woolwich, Wallen was struck by the community around him with its mixture of ages and nationalities. Following a commission to compose a suite of music celebrating his chosen hometown, Wallen wrote his Anthem for Woolwich which forms the nucleus of this new album ? taking inspiration from the timeless sound of the human soul from all corners of the earth. Landmarks of blues, mode and groove are explored and re-invented. Inspiration for the compositions was also drawn from early Renaissance music, Central and East African rhythm and polyphony, and the music of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Thelonius Monk.

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Harvey Road,

Leytonstone,

London,

Greater London,

England,

E11 3DB.