CD: Garden of Expression
Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry
release date: 29 Jan 2021
The debut album from Joe Lovano's trio Tapestry was one of the most talked-about releases of 2019, and the trio's musical concept - what the Boston Globe called "whispered assurance, lyricism and tension" - is taken to the next level on their second album Garden of Expression, a recording characterized by its intense focus.
Lovano, a saxophonist whose range spans the entire history of modern jazz and beyond, plays with extraordinary sensitivity in the trio Tapestry. And the music he writes for this group - delicately melodic or declamatory, harmonically open, rhythmically free and spiritually evocative - inspires subtle and nuanced responses from his partners. Joe describes their interaction as "magical".
Carmen Castaldi's space-conscious approach to drumming refines an improvisational understanding that he and Lovano have shared since the 1970s. The trio is also a wonderful context for Marilyn Crispell's solos, countermelodies and improvisational embellishments, her sense of timbre helping the chamber music character of the group to blossom.
Lovano, a saxophonist whose range spans the entire history of modern jazz and beyond, plays with extraordinary sensitivity in the trio Tapestry. And the music he writes for this group - delicately melodic or declamatory, harmonically open, rhythmically free and spiritually evocative - inspires subtle and nuanced responses from his partners. Joe describes their interaction as "magical".
Carmen Castaldi's space-conscious approach to drumming refines an improvisational understanding that he and Lovano have shared since the 1970s. The trio is also a wonderful context for Marilyn Crispell's solos, countermelodies and improvisational embellishments, her sense of timbre helping the chamber music character of the group to blossom.