Wire And Bone is the latest album by several alumni of Ornette Colemans Prime Time band of Harmolodic adventurers including DAVE BRYANT, GEORGE GARZONE, JAMAALADEEN TACUMA, CHRIS BOWMAN, KENNY WESSEL and ERIC HOFBAUER, recorded by Alex Allinson at The Bridge, Cambridge MA, December 16-17, 2018. I may imagine them in other places, like those on the bands recent pacific North-west tour.
Wire And Bone opens with Perseus Tonight a cool cafe jazz mood setter for lazy days, glass in hand gazing round the room at a nice chilled out scene hinting at all sorts of cultural fusions.
Leviathan takes the essence of McLaughlin twists in a slow funky bassline adds some shakers and creates a mammoth sound.
Travelogue 1 is like they are sitting on a train pulling out of Boston headed for Lowell on a pilgrimage searching for the sound of the Potomac and Lennie Tristano's ghost.
Dialogue 1 has all sorts of questions being asked by the differing keyboard cadences, they interrogate that horn player, following him around the room.
Too Cold To Snow has cymbals creating a snowstorm for the keys to slowly meander through as things get chilled to the bone.
Dialogue 2 tip toes across the keys like Gymnopedies are the key component, malleable yet in need of the odd skronk for good company.
Questionaire Can you dance to this? How easy is this tune to hum along too? Is it the horns or the drums that do it for you? Are the keyboards far enough to the left? Who listened to Coltrane's Reflections before playing this? How many skronks are played on this tune? Is tomorrow still the question? Did they lift the keyboard madness from Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy? Is this meant to be a comedown conclusion or a mental collapse?
Dialogue 3 is for patrons who may be in a sentimental mood dreaming of sitting at the Five Spot or the Riverside Lounge
Travelogue 2 has them journeying to is it the East Indies, tablas and horns lead that sinewy bass all over the place. Watching the world go by a breeze in the air branches flutter in the wind.
Wire And Bone fuses the intense drum flourishes to weird horn interactions with the keyboards stretched out over every last Bone being pressed, the wires vibrate off into the outer reaches of Jazz where you either get it, or you go running from the room shaking your head at the cacophony, not remotely sober listening.
Dialogue4 is between a slow pensive pianist and an even slower sax player adorning the chat with beauty.
Travelogue 3 the drums are talking, keys search for new adventures in the most unlikely places.
The Sidestep takes us into a noir world of gitane smoking, zoot suited women ruling the coolest Dance joint around, always wanting the keys to go more Jimmie Smith than Lonnie Liston while getting rather carried away.
Sunk In The Funk is deep down below the groove chillin' with a Byrd vibe, gotta strut yo stuff on the dancefloor chasing Cissy's ghost.
Dialogue 5 barbs start to fly rapid flow like an argument beginning when in actual fact it's the end they are about to split.
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