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Your support makes all the difference.Perhaps because they’re never going to win, there’s a strong sense of randomness, attitude-striking or plain old hype to the selection of the Mercury Prize’s token jazz finalists.
The virtues of this year’s choice, the Leeds sax/guitar/drums unit Roller Trio, are only occasionally apparent on a debut album that, heard cold, can seem little more than a mildly promising demo that sounds less like the future of jazz and more like a re-working of 1980s punk-jazzers Pinski Zoo.
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