Mathias Eick: Skala – review

(ECM)Disappointments, even honourable ones, don't usually warrant inclusion over better offerings among the limited column-inches jazz secures. But since Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick, a regular member of genre-bending cult band Jaga Jazzist, has been a creative sideman for others – notably guitarist Jacob Young on 2004's Evening Falls, and bassist Lars Danielsson's 2009 Tarantella – a misfire is worth investigating. This set breaks ECM's usual quick-take, played-as-live house-rules, conc...

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