JUSTIN MITCHELL

British keyboards and trumpet player -----------          --------- Until now Mitchell has probably expressed himself best on trumpet and keyboards in the various incarnations of the Happy Accidents, an imaginative jazz-leaning bunch led by Canterbury musical guru Graham Flight, a veteran of the Wilde Flowers, a band that numbered luminaries Kevin Ayers, Richard Sinclair, Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt in its ranks as the 1960s turned psychedelic. There are echoes of the Accidents in Mitchell’s work but also of Morning Star favourite Wyatt, not just in instrumentation but also in making best use of a restricted working method. “I would have really liked to have ‘real’ drums and bass but, in the end, things are what they are — and we are just very lucky if we have something we look forward to getting stuck in read more...