Jazz Articles about The Cry

The Cry: The Cry

by Mike Jurkovic
July 1, 2023

Like a seance, the French improvising trio of pianist Christine Ott, keyboardist Mathieu Gabry and drummer/percussionist Pierre-Loïc Le Bliguet, collectively calling themselves The Cry, manage to seep into one's crowded consciousness with an ethereal language spoken before, but just not quite like they speak it on their eponymous debut outing. Is it jazz? Who knows. Is it ambient avant-garde? Yeah maybe. Let the jury decide on the evidence. Take for instance, “Chorus Alpha," that at first enters the ...