Jazz Articles about The Thing

The Thing: Garage

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 13, 2004

This is a disc you know you are going to love from the first sound of the pounding, kick-ass drums.

Garage is the third release by The Thing (a trio named after Don Cherry's seminal piece “The Thing"), following two hard-to-find releases on Swedish reed master Mats Gustafsson's now defunct Crazy Wisdom label ( The Thing , 2000 and with Joe McPhee, She Knows... , 2001). It consists of high-energy, slightly extended covers of left-of-center art/punk songs and free jazz ...