What a fascinating album! If you have the chance, as I did, to listen to it in a rainy day and with a pair of comfortable headphones you will be immediately catapulted and wrapped in a warm hug of long notes and dilated atmospheres, highly lyrical and dramatic, but never melancholic.
Every musician takes his time to distil few powerful notes. It’s just as if the three of them are there thinking a lot, waiting, feeling the right moment, searching the right approach to say something really important to their companions. And they succeed in doing this for the whole work. Kris Davis on piano chooses short, meaningful phrases. Ingrid Laubrock has a magnetic tone, whispered and mesmerizing. I’d say feminine, even not knowing she’s a woman.
Tyshawn Sorey impresses me. You perceive his monolithic presence. He can be silent for minutes and when his drumming arrives it is rhythm made flesh. Feel it in 'Second Strike'.
There are of course some more speedy episodes, as 'Fear the Fairy Dust', but the result is never frantic.
This is, among the trio releases I’ve been lately listening to, maybe the closest to a spoken conversation. I have no other words to describe it. They would.
If I am allowed to do that, I will steal two ways of saying from our Stef. 'Higly recommended' and 'this is jazz'! - Paolo Casertano
Tracks
1. An Intermittent Procession (Tyshawn Sorey)
2. First Strike (Ingrid Labrock)
3. Fear The Fairy Dust (Kris Davis)
4. Second Strike (Ingrid Laubrock)
5. Figment (Tyshawn Sorey)
6. Union (Kris Davis)
7. Masterisk (Ingrid Laubrock)
8. Repose (Tyshawn Sorey)
9. Third Strike, You're Out (Ingrid Laubrock)
TYSHAWN SOREY drums, melodica, trombone
KRIS DAVIS piano
INGRID LAUBROCK tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Recorded October 10, 2011
Clean Feed – CF262CD (Portugal)