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OCULAR

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Issue 161

Solstice guitarist's son leads smart-jazz instrumental group along the prog path.

WHEN YOU HEAR Ocular live - and they intend to make that easy - you'll be gobsmacked by the level of compositional talent and creative energy from the group of five twentysomethings who perform smart jazz with a prog soul. And how couldn't they, when bass and horn player Laurie Glass is the son of Solstice mastermind Andy Glass?

With varying amateur and semi-professional experiences behind them, Northants-based Glass, Ben Maxwell and Joe Dan Hirst got together to blow the cobwebs away in 2021.

"I'd been in wind orchestras, choirs, jazz bands and quartets," says Hirst. "It was surprisingly out of my comfort zone - but the lack of limitations sparked the ideas included on our debut album, Planet Ocular."

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