Jason Moran: Ten | CD review

(Blue Note)The world might be teeming with gifted jazz-piano idiom-colliders, but Jason Moran, the 35-year-old Thelonious Monk-inspired improviser and composer always promises adventure. Unusually for him, this album has no guiding concept beyond his long-acquainted virtuoso trio's powers (Tarus Mateen is on bass, Nasheet Waits on drums) to listen and play together. It's also about how traditionally bluesy or gospel-rooted themes can be led through a contemporary world of probing, busily improvi...

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