This is one that keeps growing more interesting on each spin.
Throughout, the duo demonstrates a genuine gift playing off, and listening to, each other. Seemingly parallel in their play, a deeper listen reveals a great deal of interaction and sparks from colliding ideas. Track two, 'Razor Jarts' features more conventional sounds, but the melodic ideas are wholly original. It feels very unusual - a true testament to their creativity. Cretella's guitar is processed to the point of being an electronic blip while Guarino plays long sputtering tones. The first track, 'Thunder Plunge' features the trumpet/guitar duo sounding nothing like a trumpet/guitar duo. Guitarist Chris Cretella has studied with (among others) Joe Morris and Anthony Coleman, while trumpeter Guarino cites the friendship and guidance Wadada Leo Smith. Suspicious Diversions Questionable Amusements is the result of an excellent pairing of two new Englanders who bring a deep knowledge to their spontaneous collaboration. This album is a must for bass lovers, especially the esoteric ones!Ĭhris Cretella and Lou Guarino - Suspicious Diversions Questionable Amusements (s/r, 2016) **** On disc 2, they are focused on exploring the outer limits of their instruments. On disc 1, Kretzmer plays rapidly and tunefully over Jones' solid accompaniment. Of note are the two collaborations between Kretzmer and Jones. The penultimate 'Drinking Song' with Sean Conley, kicks off with a boppish line that always seems poised to explode, yet keeps itself together. On 'A Day Later,' Kretzmer opens the floor for frequent collaborator Reuben Radding, whose pizzicato playing seems to cast a calm over the track. The trumpet here is Pascal Niggenkemper's unusual bass work. Skipping ahead to Kretzmer's duos, the first one is 'Trumpets,' and it's out there! Buzzing and sputtering, it's a bit like a fight between a UFO and a bee. 'Mark Dresser,' the third track leans on elongated tones and experimental melodies, building to a feverish climax.
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The bass-on-bass duet with Phillips - also firmly in the low register - is full of percussive chatter and rhythmic inventions. A flurry of notes erupts from the sax as the two then deliver an evolving duet of incredibly condensed energy.
The album begins with Jones and Horenstein working the low-end, rumbling to life with key clicks and percussive slaps of the bass strings. Their collaborators are bassists Barre Phillips, Mark Dresser, Reuben Radding, Sean Conly, Damon Smith, Pascal Niggenkemper, woodwind player Steve Horenstein, and violinist Carmel Raz.
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This rich double-CD was released earlier this year and features a series of duos anchored, on disc 1, by Israel-based bassist JC Jones, and on disc 2, by NY/Israel-based saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer. On 'Ask Later' it all comes together as the clever 'composition' from Grew swirls together with Watt's saxophone in a a 15-minute mini-epic that ranges from introspective to exuberant.Īlexander Hawkins & Evan Parker - Leaps In Leicester (Clean Feed, 2016) **** Another track, 'The Lit and Phil Chair' begins with a powerful burst of saxophone over low scrapings of the piano's strings.
For example, 'Sadness of Rhyme' is a complex dance, with deep pockets of silence and delicate interactions that feel spontaneously exacted with no deference to the time and space between them. The results are sublime and had the information about the overdubbing approach not been revealed, one probably would not have expected it.
Grew sent a recording of a few improvised sets to Watts to play over. On Con Fluent, the two are a virtual duo. On Con Fluent, he continues his restless journey in a duo with Stephen Grew, a pianist who is also deeply embedded in the U.K.'s improvised music scene. Saxophonist Trevor Watts has had a wonderfully creative and imaginative musical career, from his early exploratory work with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, to his groups Amalgam, Moire Music, and beyond.