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Carrie Shull/Tara Flandreau/Reuben Radding: The Branch Will Not Break
by Terrell Kent Holmes
The Branch Will Not Break is an impressive collection of musical episodes. To call them songs would be somewhat inaccurate, because they're closer to tone poems or paintings with notes. And this splendid trio--Carrie Shull on oboe and English horn, Tara Flandreau on viola, and Reuben Radding on double bass--is like a collective Jackson Pollock, working on a canvas that barely contains the energy of their ideas.The opening title tune suggests a traditional symphonic warmup, but the conventional ...
Continue ReadingUmbrella Recordings Releases Carrie Shull/Tara Flandreau/Reuben Radding – "The Branch Will Not Break"
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All About Jazz
New York bassist Reuben Radding who made a critical splash in 2003 with the gorgeous and haunting Luminesence, on AUM Fidelity (a collection of duets with altoist Daniel Carter), is back with a new CD, The Branch Will Not Break (UMR030), with Carrie Shull on oboe and English horn, and violist Tara Flandreau, now available on Umbrella Recordings. This collection of eleven chamber improvisations is stunningly evocative, and inventive, inhabiting a unique space somewhere between contemporary classical music and free ...
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