Ariel Shibolet / Nori Jacoby

Ariel Shibolet / Nori Jacoby: Scenes From An Ideal Marriage

by Nic Jones
May 11, 2011

Having existed for decades, free improvisation can be argued to have settled into a kind of routine regardless of the music's underlying abstraction. The soprano sax has become readily associated with the music thanks to the efforts of such pioneers as Steve Lacy, Evan Parker and Trevor Watts. Ariel Shibolet seems only too aware of this, but such is the depth of his musical expression that he plays largely free of the influences of such precedents. As a violist, Nori ...