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Jimmy Halperin/Bill Chattin/Don Messina: Cycle Logical
ByThe emancipation is apparent on the gorgeous opening reading of “Everything Happens To Me,” but really comes to play on the proceeding medley where Halperin opens the track unaccompanied. Swimming effortlessly and in almost scalar fashion through a stream of theme-derived notes his light tenor phrasings paint with Pollack-like splashes. The entrance of his partners signals a slightly more tensile turn to his tone through the appearance of lower register punctuations. Messina and Chattin favor a similarly abstemious approach moving from foreground to supportive roles with equal acumen. The bassist in particular, miked to near perfection, treats his strings as a streamlined vehicle for studious harmonic exploration while still retaining a playful and visceral flavor to his improvisations.
Another clever, if somewhat quixotic compositional combination crops up in the pairing of the timeless “Sweet Georgia Brown” with Halperin’s own enigmatically titled “Sub-Atomic Dominant.” The swift tempo pace makes for some treacherous harmonic terrain, but the three players scale the slippery ensemble sections without missing a beat. “Subconscious-Lee,” one of the standard currencies of Halperin’s chosen Tristano-bred lineage also opens up a wealth of improvisatory avenues and the trio charts a course that allows travel down many of them. While the music has admitted antecedents in the piano-less trios of Mulligan, Rollins and Coleman, the progenitor closest in countenance is actually Lee Konitz’s late Fifties ‘Motion’ trio with Sonny Dallas and Elvin Jones. If the work of that quietly trend-setting unit is to your liking than Halperin’s efforts are certain to please.
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Jimmy Halperin
saxophone, tenorBass: Don Messina; Drums: Bill Chattin; Tenor Saxophone: Jimmy Halperin.
Album information
Title: Cycle Logical | Year Released: 2002 | Record Label: Cadence Jazz Records
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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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