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August 2011

“…dazzling mix of flamenco, jazz, classical and swing, as heard on their new album ‘Release the Penguins’.”

The JazzMann.com – Ian Mann ****

July 2010

Sunday at The Mostly Jazz Festival, Moseley Park, Birmingham, 04/07/2010

[...] The TG Collective grew out of the Birmingham based guitar trio Trio Gitano featuring Jamie Fekete and Sam Slater. The trio’s 2005 album “Who Ate All The Tapas?” was a surprise commercial success and since those days Fekete and Slater have expanded the group adding bass, percussion, flute and violin to form the extended TG Collective. The group’s influences include jazz (particularly the music of Django Reinhardt), flamenco and contemporary classical with the flamenco side of things becoming increasingly dominant. Some Of TG Collective’s performances are enhanced by the fiery flamenco footwork of dancer Ana Garcia.

For today’s performance Fekete and Slater returned to a trio format augmenting their guitars with the double bass, trumpet and cajon of Collective member Percy Pursglove, co- founder of the Harmonic Festival.

The trio produced an eclectic programme that ranged widely and drew on many of their collective influences. Thus Django’s “Minor Swing” and “Minor Blues” bookended J.S. Bach, Pursglove switched between trumpet and bass for Horace Silver’s “Song For My Father” before moving on to cajon as the group expressed their flamenco leanings.

This was an enjoyable set, full of outstanding individual musicianship. A switch to the main stage with the full complement of the Collective should be in order for next year. [...]

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The Birmingham Post

July 2010

Mostly Jazz Festival – Sunday
- Fiona Handscomb

Day Two in the Mostly Jazz house(/park). If Day One was all about the jazz-funk and the blistering drummers, Day Two was all about the jazz-jazz and prodigious guitarists.

Starting with Birmingham’s own TG Collective Trio: an insanely talented 3-piece who seem to have double the sound than there are members. All the strumming and picking and rhythms of gypsy, contemporary, flamenco jazz with a beautiful Bach arrangement thrown in for good measure. [...]

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On Trio Gitano’s Who Ate All The Tapas? (2005/6)…

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