Speed Trap

The second release on the Jazz House Retro series is a 1994 live recording by the Peter King Quintet. When the album was initially released it received excellent reviews. Ken Rattenbury in Crescendo said, "the music is brash, confident, fluent and wonderfully inventive", and "Peter King's alto is, as ever, brilliant in tone and impeccable in execution". Tony Hall said in his Jazz Express review that "it is one of the best British bebop albums ever to have been made". Peter King and Gerard Presencer were voted No. 1 on their respective instruments in the British Jazz Awards 2002. They continue to appear regularly at clubs and festivals and in concerts as do the other members of the quintet on this album. Personnel: Peter King - (alto & soprano saxophone), Gerard Presence - (trumpet), Steve Melling - (piano), Alec Dankworth - (bass), Steve Keogh - (drums)