John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song – review

(ECM)This is an unusual ECM release – a journey back to guitarist's guitarist John Abercrombie's formative 1960s influences, in the music of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. But the implications of the title, and a glance at a postbop superband lineup – saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Joey Baron complete the group – are the clues to its underlying contemporary strengths. Flamenco Sketches, from the Davis/Evans collaboration ...

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