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Perelman - Morris - Cleaver: Living Jelly
ByThe trio opens with the flighty, free-bop "In Pursuit of Pleasure," with Morris and Cleaver setting the pace amid an open forum. The lack of a bassist offers the band additional spatial resonance and the ability to bounce around, invent, and engage in perky, oscillating dialogues. The trio delves into some fun and frolic on the fragmented free-form escapade "Playing with Mercury," where Morris's nimble single note phrasings and punctuated chop chords help generate a zigzagging current. Perelman solos and navigates the upper range, blurting out expressionistic contrapuntal maneuvers with pops, squeaks and finicky expressionism. Often engineered with a layered approach, it's an offering that enables a group sound, uncannily showcasing each musician in great detail to complement its group-centric focus.
"The Sloth" conveys vivid imagery of the earth's slowest moving animal as the saxophonist sports a Ben Webster-like tone and delves into delicate improvisational frameworks with Morris. "Living Jelly" proceeds with an amorphous undertow, energized by Perelman's wide-ranging sonic attack atop Dickey's undulating pulses and the guitarist's shadowy chord voicings.
The trio organizes the free-realm into a purposeful schematic, gushing with radiant tonal shadings, opposing viewpoints and subliminal deviations. Yet it fosters the utmost collaboration, and links a compelling story to its fervently executed, expand and contract type improvisational workouts, often modeled with great depth and capacious modalities.
Track Listing
In Pursuit of Pleasure; Playing with Mercury; The Sloth; Enigma; Living Jelly.
Personnel
Ivo Perelman
saxophone, tenorIvo Perelman: tenor saxophone; Joe Morris: guitar; Gerald Cleaver: drums.
Album information
Title: Living Jelly | Year Released: 2012 | Record Label: Leo Records
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