FALCO / SINTON / WILSON - Adumbrations
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Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, alto flute); Jed Wilson (piano); Tony Falco (drums)
Recorded at The Soul Shop, Medford, Massachusetts, USA, August 6th 2021
This album is a celebration by the trio of two decades of friendship between them which started back in their academic days at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, in the early 2000s.
To adumbrate is to give the basic facts but not the details about a thing. The titles of the tracks on this album are such an example: they tell the length of a track but nothing at all about the music or its story, e.g., Track 3 is ‘8:54’, Track 6 is 7:39. I like this, as it leaves no pointing signs for the listeners, to direct them on any given path. They can create their own narratives.
Josh Sinton is highly thought of in Brooklyn NY, heard of playing and collaborating with creative musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock and Nate Wooley. He was named in 2020 as “Rising Star” in the baritone saxophone category of Down Beat’s Critics’ Poll: here he plays bass clarinet and alto flute as well.
Pianist Jed Wilson, based in New England, is largely active in Free Improv as well as in jazz and is currently busy with Improv-based works with Adumbrations’ drummer, Tony Falco who is based in Massachusetts and deeply involved with Avant-garde musicians such as John Medeski and Marilyn Crispell.
These three musicians in this trio are clearly listening out for each other, as their music is free and exceptionally unrelenting, moving forward without a break. At times one imagines passages so lyrical and harmonic that they might be written, composed, but I don’t think so. Their musical impetus arises from its contents and the inspiration which was given by whatever crucible or brazier was functional in furnishing their energy and allowing them the time to consider their music, for it truly is thoughtful.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Form-is-Possibility-Recordings CD fpcd03
Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, alto flute); Jed Wilson (piano); Tony Falco (drums)
Recorded at The Soul Shop, Medford, Massachusetts, USA, August 6th 2021
This album is a celebration by the trio of two decades of friendship between them which started back in their academic days at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, in the early 2000s.
To adumbrate is to give the basic facts but not the details about a thing. The titles of the tracks on this album are such an example: they tell the length of a track but nothing at all about the music or its story, e.g., Track 3 is ‘8:54’, Track 6 is 7:39. I like this, as it leaves no pointing signs for the listeners, to direct them on any given path. They can create their own narratives.
Josh Sinton is highly thought of in Brooklyn NY, heard of playing and collaborating with creative musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock and Nate Wooley. He was named in 2020 as “Rising Star” in the baritone saxophone category of Down Beat’s Critics’ Poll: here he plays bass clarinet and alto flute as well.
Pianist Jed Wilson, based in New England, is largely active in Free Improv as well as in jazz and is currently busy with Improv-based works with Adumbrations’ drummer, Tony Falco who is based in Massachusetts and deeply involved with Avant-garde musicians such as John Medeski and Marilyn Crispell.
These three musicians in this trio are clearly listening out for each other, as their music is free and exceptionally unrelenting, moving forward without a break. At times one imagines passages so lyrical and harmonic that they might be written, composed, but I don’t think so. Their musical impetus arises from its contents and the inspiration which was given by whatever crucible or brazier was functional in furnishing their energy and allowing them the time to consider their music, for it truly is thoughtful.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
