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(2006) The Knuckleball Suite was recorded
in two and a half days, with a cadre of world-class improvising
musicians who had not rehearsed a single note of the songs together.
It is not Jazz, but it is a Jazz approach. The years of study
and refinement, theory and practice, are present, but are shrugged
off at the doorstep of the studio. In there, it's rapport and
intuition, spontaneity and spark. What gets spoken is the barest
essentials: "Tag it twice?", "End on four to one, yes?" What is
unspoken is every leap, listen, and turn. And what remains is
usually take two, sometimes take three. Each track is a warm,
large-format photograph of a gifted musical posse, caught in the
very moment of Making It All Up. Out of thin air. For real. |
