Jazz Articles about Aercine

About Aercine

Album Review

Artful meshing of sound and form is an important factor in making improvisation work. Without a core that draws the players, it doesn't work. If they let invention go off at different angles, the result can at worst be irksome and at best unsatisfying. Aercine offers a mixed bag.

When the pieces fall into place, Aercine is a potent force. The musicality on “Twofold Twice” flies off disparate tendencies voiced by the piano rumblings of Michael Jefry ...

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Album Review

Aercine: Aercine

by Farrell Lowe
March 25, 2003

It's rare to find an album as compelling as this one, and it's even more remarkable when all of the music on the disk is completely improvised. There is a stunning empathy between the five musicians who comprise Aercine, and the results of their musical relationship are sheer joy.

Aercine crosses musical boundaries as easily as a butterfly moving from one kind of flower to another, then another and another. “Kaaterskill Falls" begins wit h an apostolic Appalachian-tinged ...