Alison Rayner Quintet at Bonington Theatre

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Alison Rayner has assembled a group of like-minded musicians to perform her compositions and their imaginative and assured playing reflects the confidence inspired by working intensively together when touring their first album August. The music on the new CD, A Magic Life, is bursting with melodic and harmonic references from jazz, classical and folk music. Rayner cites both Charlie Haden and Eberhard Weber as influences - but there's always a strong sense of Rayner's musical personality