Nils Petter Molvaer: Baboon Moon – review

(Sony Music)The popular Norwegian ambient-music trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer is partnered here by Jaga Jazzist guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Stian Westerhus and alt-rock drummer Erland Dahlen. Thus Baboon Moon is 21st-century prog-rock rather than jazz (nothing much resembles a jazz lick other than the leader's slow, Miles Davis-influenced melody twists), but improvisers' sensibilities have shaped it, and it isn't bland. Molvaer's pure, whispering high notes, soft trills and slow-building...

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