Charles Sibirsky

Charles Sibirsky/Mark Josefsberg Quartet: The BQE

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2000

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway receives its due credit on The BQE for bringing the two halves of this quartet together. It also appears in its own way through the music itself: ranging from dreamily slow to head-long fast, changing tempos and moods at a moment's notice. Sibirsky asserts that most of this record was improvised, built around spare compositional frameworks. Indeed, the openness of the quartet to evolution and devolution is the record's greatest quality.

While the members of the rhythm ...