Mark-Anthony Turnage: Blood On The Floor (DVD)

Label : Arthaus DVD

Artists:
John Scofield, electric guitar
Peter Erskine, drum kit
Martin Robertson, saxophone, bass clarinet

Improvisation & jazz-style melodies have been part of Turnage's work for many years, but this is the composer's first large-scale attempt to obliterate artificial boundaries between one "type" of music & another.
A brutally powerful high octane fusion of jazz & classiccal styles, it concentrates on themes of urban alienation & drug abuse & is described by Turnage as "probably the nastiest thing I have written".