Dog by Rattle Jazz

BEST JAZZ ALBUM 2015

Dog is an Auckland quartet featuring four of New Zealand's most highly regarded jazz musicians/composers, and this, their self-titled first album is their Rattle Jazz debut. The music is fresh and vibrant, composed and performed by four outstanding, highly disciplined artists who live and breathe jazz – and it shows.

"The previously considered Rattle Jazz album Dark Light (by Jonathan Crayford, Ben Street and Dan Weiss) really set a high bar, but this one –– a post-bop album with pianist Kevin Field and Roger Manins heading out for distant and sometimes demanding landscapes ––reminds you just what a thrilling music jazz can ... "
Graham Reid, Elsewhere