A different kind of Dinosaur

LAURA Jurd is one of the most remarkable young musicians to emerge in Britain in many years.

A different kind of Dinosaur

Still only 26, the trumpet-playing bandleader and composer has released three strikingly diverse albums, won a series of high-profile awards, and been heralded as a rising jazz star whose music consistently “stretches critics and musicians’ repertoire of superlatives”.

She is also, of course, a female trumpet-playing bandleader and composer, and jazz, in particular, has not produced many of those.

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