Monday, February 01, 2010
To Mostly Other People Do The Killing yesterday, at Bruce Eaton's Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz series at the Albright-Knox. Bruce had promised that we were in for something special and they were all that, a terrific blend of Ornette Coleman, traditional New Orleans jazz, hard bop, "In A Silent Way" era Miles and probably six or seven or a dozen other things that I could hear but not identify. A lot of what happens in their music seemed to be going on in between the individual sounds that each member of the quintet (drums, bass, tenor and trumpet) were making. It was fun, and charming, but also challenging, often characterized by cacophony collapsing into lyricism. I'd rank it among the top shows I've seen over the course of the 11 years Bruce has been producing this program. I love it when jazz musicians show that the form is still growing.
// posted by Bill @ 7:57 AM 
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