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Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath
ByDavis' compositional style incorporates numerous mini- movements, subplots and the frontline's probing solos. On "the Ghost of Your Previous Fuckup," grave news is exploited by the clarinetists' howling notes and drummer Jim Black's hard-hitting beats. The ensemble also renders a free-jazz jamboree, perhaps stating a major screw up of some flavor that is seemingly in compliance with the track title. Surging forward, Davis' intense piano phrasings steer the musical events into an Ornette Coleman style free-bop vibe with splintered rhythms and a succession of organized and freeform movements. Moreover, organist Gary Versace must have lit up the studio with his sizzling and silvery single note runs during various sectors of the production.
The leader finalizes the album by tossing a curveball into the mix with the album's lengthiest piece "Save Your Breath," which is engineered on an outside the box ambient ethereal framework, shaded with droning lines and subliminal undertones. Here, Davis processes an unanticipated contrapuntal statement that offers a calming contrast to the ensemble's preceding game-plan. Indeed, she aims her sights rather high throughout this persuasive journey into an abstract musical space that recurrently circles back to core jazz attributes with similes to the inner-workings of a contemporary classical composer.
Track Listing
Union Forever; Jumping Over Your Shadow; Always Leave Them (Wanting More); Whirly Swirly; The Gosth of Your Previous Fuckup; Save Your Breath.
Personnel
Kris Davis
pianoBen Goldberg: clarinetto basso, clarinetto contralto, clarinetto; Oscar Noriega: clarinetto basso, clarinetto; Joachim Badenhorst: clarinetto basso, clarinetto; Andrew Bishop: clarinetto contrabbasso, clarinetto; Nate Radley: chitarra; Gary Versace: organo; Jim Black: batteria; Kris Davis: piano, composizione.
Album information
Title: Save Your Breath | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Clean Feed Records