Tetrahedron / Ernesto Cervini

If poetry, and classical and jazz music required something special for appreciation, many fewer people would appreciate them than do. It's an empirical argument, but an effective one. A recording worthy of considering in this paradigm, as well as extending it, is drummer Ernesto Cervini's Tetrahedron. A full listen reveals a music at once free spirited and precisely hewn. The instrumentation is a quartet, with guitar as harmony instrument. The compositions, a mixture of five originals and three standards provide for a sweeping look at the leader's (drummer Ernesto Cervini) performance dream-thought. There is an integrating paradigm to all of the pieces on Tetrahedron. It is an admixture of freely imagined music coalescing into cogent lines of melody and rhythm of differing complexities before disintegrating back into a new imagined level of entropy, not unlike a flock of birds scattering and then melding into form. The quartet may not be simply dismissed as "not coloring within the lines" because the song arrangements are so precise, including dramatic starts and stops.

Price: $25.98

In stock
ships in 3 to 5 days