BLAST 4tet: Sift

This is the second release, after a long wait, from this unique ensemble. Equally at home with the discipline of composition and the tightrope of improvisation Blast (now Blast 4tet) have evolved a fluid, pointillistic, unfathomable but transparent musical language that seamlessly integrates – over very short durations – highly complex writing and very free ranging improvisation, allowing the two languages to merge and combine into a new kind of logical exposition that makes sense but can’t be reverse-engineered into its component parts. This is a music that lives through detail and exposition; neither resolving into composition, nor able properly to be understood as improvisation. In this respect Blast have solved a problem that has defeated many in the last 40 years.

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Collective 4tet : ORCA

Collective 4tet

ORCA

label: Leo Records

ref: Leo LAB CD 031

year:1997

players: Heinz Geisser (drums), Mark Hennen (piano), Jeff Hoyer (trombone) and William Parker (bass).

In what seems to now be a regular group (this is their 2nd CD). Hear Parker double on tuba on one track! Their music has also been compared to abstract expressionist painting for its explosive energy and dynamic range of sounds and rhythms beyond traditional musical structures. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD which rates the Collective 4tet’s album “ORCA”

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