2/29/2024 0 Comments Discipline at montage music hall![]() In the same venue, another drummer led an entirely different quartet. The JFK tribute involved spectral vibes, with the leader laying out his own set of chimes around his skins, enhancing Matt Moran’s vibraphone glow. The song steadily trundled toward a frantic outbreak of activity before working through a series of threesome permutations.Įver the jester, Hollenbeck dedicated a pair of works to the drug-sniffer beagles of Newark and JFK airports, each given their own portrait. Its translucent nature led into “September 9th Wayne Phases,” dedicated to Wayne Shorter. “Nightbreak” stole a four-bar Charlie Parker solo from “A Night In Tunisia” and decelerated it to the point of ambiguity. “Peterborough” featured a speedy interlacing of vibraphone, accordion, reeds, bass and percussion. The leader’s compositions are now attaining a mastery that allows fleet spontaneity within an exceedingly disciplined structure. On the same evening, drummer John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet was in particularly fine form, in the much less atmospheric Xerox Auditorium. Drummer Gard Nilssen maintained a constant blur of detailed activity, with another blowtorch tenor outburst following, as the second number refused to let up the pace. Early in the set, Kristoffer Berre Alberts issued a staggering tenor saxophone solo, setting the level for the raging battles to come. The foursome decided to preview tunes from its forthcoming album. The two-horn freedom-scrabble set-up was reminiscent of the Old & New Dreams band, if not the original Ornette Coleman quartet itself. Here, the church’s fine acoustics embraced a different range of sonics. The sensitivity and rapport between these three artists was in a state of perfect balance, creeping between near-silence and delicate exploration.įellow Norwegians Cortex had played in the same church on the previous night, and the quartet operated at faster, harder, louder and more complicated extremes. Joey Alexander (left) and Chick Corea play a duet at the Rochester International Jazz Festival in Rochester, New York, on June 28.
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