Polar Bear -

Hailed as the most exciting thing to happen to new jazz this century, Polar Bear, using only bass, drums and two tenor sax's, make passionate post- jazz which has the intensity and fervour of punk. 'Polar Bear snort, shriek and wrestle somewhere ominous and charming between the tumultuous energy of Keith Tippett's 50-piece orchestra Centipede, and the eclecticism of Tortoise' - Observer.