(PRE-ORDER 10/10/25) Starry Starry Night (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M) – – JAZZ *NEW*

A charming little beauty, Starry Starry Night is a collection of cover versions of mainly familiar material by drummer Paul Clarvis and pianist Liam Noble, two characterful lights of the British jazz scene. The tunes range from classic standards like Duke Ellingtons Mood Indigo, the Gershwins Embraceable You and Scott Joplins Maple Leaf Rag, through to more recent treasures like Gillian Welchs Dear Someone, Don Macleans Vincent (Starry Starry Night) and Moondogs Paris. The album is as intimate and seductive as the source material and instrumentation promiseClarvis and Noble are respectful of the composers original intentions, rarely straying far from the top-lines or basic changesbut the duo bring fresh fascination to even the most well-worn item.

Clarvis and Noble met, propitiously, when they both worked in the band put together to accompany composer and multi-instrumentalist Moondog at a London concert in the 1990s. Theyve since performed and recorded together frequently, and followed singular paths of their own. Clarvis leads the quirky world jazz and folk band Orquestra Mahatma, and has become an in-demand session drummer whose soundtrack credits include numerous big screen blockbusters (among them Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Batman, Billy Elliot and Shakespeare In Love). A master technician who wears his virtuosity lightly, Clarvis is an unusually melodic drummer. Among his several involvements, Noble, who is equally at home in the lyric songbook tradition and the most uncharted free-improv, performs and records with folkish jazz singer/songwriter Christine Tobin and with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. With Laubrock he recorded the mainly jazz standards duo album, Lets Call This (Babel, 2006), and the deep and singular Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008). His playing on Starry Starry Night is rhapsodic and vivacious.

Given the nature of the material, it might be expected that much of the interest on the album would derive from Nobles performances. But Clarvis, heard throughout on brushes, holds his own. He transposes the melody and rhythmic emphases of Embraceable You to the drum kit to create one of the highlights of the album. Others are Welchs Dear Someone, an exquisite last waltz with a suggestion of menace in the wings; Ellingtons Mood Indigo, which Noble succeeds in making both spectral and lush; and Moondogs infectiously joyous “Paris.

Chris May

• LP standard sleeve
• Recorded at Abbey Road Studio One, 1st June 2006

1 Mood Indigo
2 Shadow of Your Smile
3 Dear Someone
4 Maple Leaf Rag
5 Vincent
6 Poor Butterfly
7 Whispering
8 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
9 Embraceable You
10 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
11 Paris

PPFAR1001 -Artist-Paul Clarvis & Liam Noble

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: LP Black
• Format: Vinyl
• Availability : Pre-Order
• Genre: JAZZ
• Format Type: LP
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item’s shipment.**
• Internal ID: JIT