Jazz Articles about Helen Svoboda

Svaboda / O'Connor / Green: Time Together / Time Apart

by Mike Jurkovic
May 14, 2023

It is hard not be taken aback by the sonorous study undertaken by the peerless trio of double bassist Helen Svoboda, pianist Joe O'Connor and drummer Tim Green on their organically collective and communicative Time Together, Time Apart. Like watching the ocean, “A Beginning" scans the immediate calm surface, expanding your vision out towards the horizon. The conversation is warm, the camaraderie instinctual. Svoboda's architectural design for “A Proposition" barely holds O'Connor's fidgeting spins and Green's hot pursuit. ...