Nels Cline

Consentrik Quartet BLUE NOTE. CD/DL/LP The Wilco guitarist and avant-jazz explorer finds new roads in a classic format. THE DEBUT album by Nels Cline’s latest outing as a leader is loose-limbed hard-bop futurism in a foursome with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Tom Rainey, set loose in an immersive suspense of reverb and prolonged sustain – as if Sonny Rollins had cut his 1962 quartet classic with Jim Hall, The Bridge, in the black night of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way. In The Returning Angel, Laubrock threads long, warm breaths of horn through Cline’s contemplative spirals of guitar, a spell deftly grounded by Lightcap’s irregular stroll. The 23 has a crisp, strutting urgency bound by Laubrock’s tendrils of tenor and Cline’s treble-cascade fills; Surplus is an…

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