Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Tue 04 Apr 2007Swinging onto the local jazz scene'You're so exposed with a ballad, it's a tightrope all the time,' says Phil Ware. He tells Ray Comiskeyabout the trio's striking new CDJim Doherty likes to joke about a certain town in Ireland being unique - after the Latin unus equus, or one horse. As Phil Ware describes it, the little village of Wilsford in green and leafy Lincolnshire is unique, too; there is, he says, "One bus a day in each direction". Growing up there, as he did, everything is relative. Nottingham, for instance, is a Big City.