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Adam Linson: Figures and Grounds

Read "Figures and Grounds" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
August 9, 2011

The personnel of double-bassist Adam Linson's System Quartet is so good that it sets the juices flowing even before a note of music has been heard. Figures and Grounds was recorded in January 2008, when Linson still lived in Berlin, and he took full advantage of his adopted city's resources, recruiting trumpeter Axel Dörner, bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall plus expat English drummer Paul Lytton. Linson says that his role in bringing this group together was to provide a ...

Album Review

Adam Linson: Cut and Continuum

Read "Cut and Continuum" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 30, 2006

Cut and Continuum rappresenta il debutto discografico del contrabbassista Adam Linson, già figura di rilievo dell'ottetto di Evan Parker. Non aspettatevi un album facile, piuttosto un prodotto dalle mille sfaccettature, sicuramente in grado di sollevare molte polemiche, forse un po' ostico, ma per niente banale. Ed è infatti la coerenza logica che sorregge il lavoro a stupire in un personaggio di così poca esperienza, un atteggiamento che lo porta a stravolgere il concetto stesso di solismo, proiettando così lo strumento ...

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Album Review

Adam Linson: Cut and Continuum

Read "Cut and Continuum" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
October 9, 2006

Whatever your reaction to the words “solo bass album, Adam Linson's debut will probably change your mind. Previously best known--if at all--as the bassist in Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on The Eleventh Hour (ECM, 2005), Linson is here given centre stage and produces a recording that commands attention. His album of solo double bass largely eschews the virtuoso vocabulary that one might expect, substituting a closely recorded, tightly focussed sound in which it is never entirely clear where playing ends ...