Albums of the week

TRADITIONAL

Martin Hayes Quartet: The Blue Room (251 Records)

The genre signifier above ‘Martin Hayes Quartet’ may say ‘Traditional’, but The Blue Room is so much more. At the centre is Martin Hayes’ violin playing, which weaves and winds its way through the album like a snake with a homing device attached to its tongue. What makes The Blue Room (a title relating to where the music was recorded, but which could ...