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Lars Scherzberg: Top Floor Encounter

Read "Top Floor Encounter" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona
May 29, 2022

The first phase of jazz was characterized by melodic improvisation. In its second phase improvisers dealt with harmony and, in the current phase, density is the improviser's concern. So says Anthony Braxton—if I understand him correctly (if anyone does). If so, then Top Floor Encounter may be as characteristic of our time as Armstrong's “Weatherbird" was ...

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Top Floor Encounter

By Lars Scherzberg

Label: Oaksmus
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Magnetic Resonance 2.The Perch 3.Montagne de plaisanterie no.1 4.Montagne de plaisanterie no.2 5.Pulse Deviations 6.Union 7.Check 8.Plus 9.Quickie

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Lars Scherzberg-John Hughes-Jeff Arnal: Top Floor Encounter

Read "Top Floor Encounter" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2002

German composer, Dietrich Eichmann’s “Oaksmus” label is rooted within free jazz, avant-garde classical and electronics-based formats. Here, Americans, Jeff Arnal (percussion) and John Hughes (bass) align their wares with German alto saxophonist, Lars Scherzberg for a program consisting of nine free-style opuses that often spur notions of the British free jazz movement.A graduate of ...