Jack Gold

Jack Gold Quartet: Daylight

by Dan McClenaghan
November 1, 2004

Daylight, a set of “instantly composed" tunes, opens with a seaching blend, trumpet, sax, bass and drums poking around for common ground, arguing and jostling each other for position until Michael Monhart's tenor saxophone asserts itself, sounding raw and wounded. Then Jim Knodle's trumpet takes a turn, straight at you, with a bit a truculence in his tone. The song is “So-No," and an undercurrent of ready-to-explode intensity pervades, even in the lower tempos.The “spontaneous composition," “free jazz" ...