Joseph Holbrooke Trio

Joseph Holbrooke Trio: The Moat Recordings

by Marc Medwin
June 15, 2006

May is Derek Bailey memorial month at The Stone. It's fitting, then, that these Joseph Holbrooke recordings emerge now, as we mourn the fact that Bailey isn't physically with us anymore. The notes indicate that he was involved in the choice of material up to the end, happy that it was finally going to be released after years of delays. This double-disc set doesn't deserve a review; rather, it deserves a treatise, a close analysis of every moment, because each ...