| Label: JUSTIN TIME
Catalog: 068944023929
Format: CD 2011 Juno Award Nominee - CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Wholenote Discoveries - December 2010 / January 2011
Montreal-based Matt Herskowitz is an imaginative artist whose tastes spill over conventional boundaries, as Andre Previn and Dave Brubeck have demonstrated. His “Jerusalem Trilogy” hauls world music, particularly that of the Middle East, into the jazz orbit. The leader calls it 21st century chamber jazz. It’s a risky notion, but the Herskowitz trio plus violinist Lara St. John and cellist Mike Block, lesser guests and a string quartet on one track (with some through-composed music) make the idea work. Main mealtime item is the three-part Jerusalem Suite with fine use of flowing runs and counterpoint while tunes like the klezmer-styled Gottingen and the note-heavy Prokofiev’s Revenge celebrate the fusion of differing styles and cultures. Only preference for electric rather than acoustic bass jars proceedings. Geoff Chapman |
Price: $19.98
