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The longstanding, elusive but ever-new challenge of playing in ways that are truly free but also undeniably jazz is met on "Several Lights" by three young veterans of the burgeoning Chicago new music scene (cornet player Josh Berman, tenor saxophonist Ke
The Chicago Luzern Exchange: Keefe Jackson (tenor saxophone); Mark Unternahrer (tuba); Josh Berman, Frank Rosaly. Personnel: Keefe Jackson (tenor saxophone); Josh Berman (cornet); Frank Rosaly (drums). Liner Note Author: Larry Kart. Recording information: Riverside Studio, Chicago, IL (07/09/2004/07/10/2004). Photographer: Michelle Harris. The 19 selections on this colorful set are free improvisations. The cornet-tenor-tuba-drums quartet sometimes engages in swinging free bop (as on "Slips") but much of the time is actually involved in sound explorations and rather random interplay. The one non-Chicagoan, European tuba player Marc Unternahrer, is particularly skillful and versatile, displaying a wide range of tonal distortions and operating both as a member of the rhythm section and frequently as one of the lead voices. Cornetist Josh Berman and tenor-saxophonist Keefe Jackson work well off each other while drummer Frank Rosaly is mostly very much in the background. All of that said, because of the very spontaneous nature of this music, not everything works and there are stretches that are a bit tedious before inspiration (and good luck) strikes again. It is worth a few listens as long as listeners are patient and tolerant. ~ Scott Yanow
Magnet (p.118) - "[T]he music - which freely mixes unconventional instrumental techniques, jagged inter-locking passages and moments of unabashed expression - coheres as though it were written out." JazzTimes (pp.89-90) - "Unternahrer is remarkably agile on the tuba....Rosaly builds little cities of rhythm around his bandmates' earnest phrases." Chicago Luzern Exchange Several Lights Songs Several Lights Review
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Purchase Several Lights CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Kid Ory This Kid's The Greatest! CD (1956)
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