Atomic: Here Comes Everybody – review

(Jazzland)Scandinavian quintet Atomic hurl together Ornette Coleman's free-jazz legacy, Carla Bley's ironic solemnities, Latin, postbop, circus-band cavortings and much more. Pianist Håvard Wiik and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist share the composing here. The title track builds a rumbling drums groove (the inimitable Paal Nilssen-Love) from spiky piano figures and plaintive long notes from trumpeter Magnus Broo. There are jittery marionette dances broken by improv eruptions and piano arpeggios ...

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