FREIGHT by Freight

The debut album from Bristol-based jazz quartet Freight, recorded in March 2010

‘This debut recording from newly minted Bristol jazz quartet FREIGHT seems to have wafted directly from a cool corner of the mid-60s. So faithfully does it evoke a definitive ‘jazziness’ that it’s a shock to discover the majority of tunes were written by young pianist Martin Jenkins. Equally, many people might be surprised by the straightahead sax of Craig Crofton, more widely known for his funk and dub excursions. The two have a nicely intertwined understanding, each track solidly grounded in Greg Cordez’s bass and Richard Laws’s drumming. There’s an unflustered spaciousness to the sound, beautifully apparent in their hushed gospel rendering of Ellington’s sublime ‘Come Sunday’ and Jenkins’s own ‘You Said It Last’, a launch pad for Crofton’s fine Coltraneistic flights.’
Tony Benjamin VENUE magazine