Jazz Articles about Blink

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BLINK: BLINK

by Mark Corroto
October 16, 2025

It bears repeating: collective improvisation is far more challenging than individual soloing. It demands discipline, trust, and, as musicians like to say, exceptional ears. Composer and alto saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra's BLINK demonstrates all three, bringing together five musicians whose listening skills are as sharp as their instincts. The project is built on Dijkstra's long-running Porch Trio, featuring electric bassist Nate McBride and drummer Eric Rosenthal. That core group previously expanded into a sextet for PorchBone (Driff, 2024). With ...

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Blink: The Epidemic of Ideas

by Lyn Horton
September 24, 2008

Force fields emanate from and pour back into a source. This dynamic creates a self-generating system. When a group of musicians conglomerate, each playing a different instrument, each intent on developing a specific sound idea, but all beginning from a center, their dynamic is a self-generating system similar to the way force fields work. Blink embodies the boldness to self-generate, The Epidemic of Ideas its recorded results.

The minute-long first track, appropriately titled “Sum," is an overture for how each ...

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Blink: Blink

by Chris May
June 23, 2008

Although it's a record on which three adventurous London musicians each contribute to making the earth move, Blink may one day be best remembered as the album with which pianist Alcyona Mick started getting taken very seriously indeed.

Still in her mid-twenties, Mick is a jazz player whose style is enriched by her love of contemporary classical music. Here, she reveals herself as a composer and improviser who has absorbed her diverse early influences--amongst them Thelonious ...