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KT Reeder: 2021 Jazz
by David Burke
Jazz has always defied convention, its improvisational nature eliciting as much opprobrium as ovation. Ironically, given the libertarian philosophy that underpins it, those who play, critique or listen aren't always so receptive to change, to boundaries being forced, to new territory being mapped out. Remember, there were many who didn't dig bebop at first, many others who decried the free jazz movement pioneered by Ornette Coleman, and still more who baulked at fusion. All have since been accepted as seminal ...
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'So much free improv has become a closed stylistic paddock decades after its inception, this deliberate oddness is actually a good thing, and we encourage all readers with a taste for the leftfield to seek Reeder out”
David Murphy – Nightshift Magazine – October 2019
'It takes a lot to rethink an idea that others have turned their backs on, to strip something back to the bone and then rebuild it anew, but this is exactly what Kris T. Reeder has sought to do. In an approach referred to as “future music”, and trombonist Reader manages to take the solid grounding of dance and merge with it the grit of improvisation. In this it helps that he is in control of both directions, so the blend works compositionally as a whole’ – 5 out of 5
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
