CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Jazz (Free - Avant-Garde)      

Ned Rothenberg/Sync

1, 6, 8 recorded April 5, 2001 at Tedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ

2 to 5, 7 recorded December 19, 2002 at Acoustic Recording, Brooklyn, NY

Mixed June 20 and July 2, 2003 at Acoustic Recording

Mastered at Foothill Digital

It's difficult, almost ridiculous, to say "setting sentiment aside" when talking about someone as beloved yet overlooked as Chapin, but all told the trio disc Harbinger is a better record. Rothenberg's compositions aren't belabored, but they certainly aren't simple and as brilliantly executed by Jerome Harris on acoustic guitar and acoustic bass guitar and Samir Chatterjee on table, they resonate. The tablas are used smartly, not suggestively and Harris is great throughout. The clipped phrases of "One-Oh-Nine" in particular are just surprising: in five brief minutes the head is snipped and spliced as if they don't have enough time to play it; it would be rushed were it not so perfectly executed.

Rothenberg is a wonder on the reeds and is probably about the best shakuhachi player in jazz. Harbinger shows him at his best as a player, composer and bandleader.

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