Paal Nilssen-Love/Peter Brötzmann: Woodcuts |CD review

Smalltown SuperjazzNorwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love's mature style is a riveting blend of the power of a rock or drum'n'bass player, the rhythmic freedoms of a contemporary improviser and the sense of detail of an abstract percussionist. This encounter with the German sax and clarinet firebrand Peter Brötzmann is very different from Nilssen-Love's more regular partnership with Ken Vandermark, whose collaboration with the Ex Guitars on the Lean Left album we reviewed last week. For anyone who...

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