Steve Reynolds

Evan Parker - 90% tenor John Edwards - bass Mark Sanders - drums 2 CD'd - about an hour and a half of bliss my record of the year from a few years ago 5 stars

this one has been on my "to get" list for some time

Al: excellent review - you put my thoughts about the recording into your words!

Martin Kuchen: ss, as, ts - composed all the tunes Tomas Hallonsten - trumpet Benjamin Quigley - bass

not intended to offend - David asked me to give it a shot - I almost picked The Ganelin Trio - so you guys can relax I presume the trumpter has heard Feza - my experience is that musicians who are playing music like this would have naturally had an interest in bands like the Brotherhood of Breath and other great composing/inprovising ensembles of the past 20-30 tears - and Feza's playing comes right to the fore when listeneing to MacGregor's big band plus the trumpeter leans more towards his manner than, let's say, Don Cherry maybe it's my ears telling me this, who knows??

on ayler records bop on speed maybe - very alive playing by the quartet - Ornette like instrumentation - trumpet, sax, bass, drums - recorded 5/27/2002 was only familiar with the drummer - same dude from the great AALY Trio - Kjell Nordeson - and he drives this band like a locomotive - make that a bullet train - both horn players are fine - but still finding their voice - but they are hardly stuck in the rut that many of today's american mainstream trumpeters find themselves in - these guys have heard Lee Morgan *and* Mongezi Feza plus although it is mostly theme-solos-theme - there is quite a bit of change-ups and the interplay of the horns is a pleasure - as an exmaple - during the bass solo during the great second track Quoting Frippe (what's the name of the bass player?) - the horn players comment with written and improvised sections during thr bass solo - so I guess it ain't even a solo - what it is is a surprise - isn't that what jazz is supposed to be? this one lives and breaths will be enjoyed by anyone who either still loves jazz - or by anyone who might be afraid of total abandonment 4 stars fine sound as you would expect from Jan Strom's crew