Jazz Articles about Kondo / Chadbourne / Centazzo

Kondo / Chadbourne / Centazzo: The Warriors

by Nic Jones
November 18, 2007

The title of this one's misleading, as this is music made by unconditional collaborationists as opposed to anyone of a more aggressive disposition. The results of their collaboration embodies that old saying about the meeting of minds, and the results are the outcome of a highly refined group sensibility that was evidently defined by the trio's experience as a working group.

With the exception of “The Warriors #8," no individual track breaches the ten minute mark, and in a sense ...