Ari Hoenig: Lines of Oppression - review

(Naive)This page recently covered drummer Hoenig's Punk Bop band in the series of albums recorded at New York's Smalls club. That was a set of coolly fluent postbop, but this one has more determined punch and a wider sweep, from a classy band including Dhafer Youssef pianist Tigran Hamasyan. There are rhythm-layering, very long-lined, Middle-Eastern melodic twisters leading to riffs-and-drums exchanges such as the title track with its incisive guitar improv from Gilad Hekselman, warm-water ball...

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