submitted on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 06:05 in Jazz Group by Mike_Longo Similar media
Here in the UK, roughly once a year, an album emerges from the cross-genre margins with enough novelty appeal to attract a mainstream audience and enough integrity to interest jazz listeners. Last year it was the Portico Quartet's Knee Deep In The North Sea (The Vortex, 2007), whose novelty appeal came with the inclusion in the line-up of two hangs (Swiss-born offspring of a Balinese gamelan gong and a Chinese cooking wok), and whose depth was provided by the quality of composition and improvisation. This year it could be the Carver Trio's Broken Sleep...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Chris May
