Jazz Articles about Mary Halvorson

Mary Halvorson / Jessica Pavone: Prairies

by Celeste Sunderland
July 24, 2006

Guitarist Mary Halvorson and violist Jessica Pavone bring barely audible remnants from the past to their new duo album, but also rustle with an air that is voraciously of the present. An ability to dream up fresh new palettes of sound for their instruments enables them to create strange but wonderful landscapes. Complementary rhythms form thick textures, or long notes combine in sparse melodies to form atmospheric settings throughout the album's thirteen tracks. Each tune exists as ...