Raphael Imbert: N_Y Project | CD review

(Zig Zag Territoires)The antecedents of this recording (an academic study that took French saxophonist Imbert to New York to investigate spiritual influences in jazz) might suggest a rather more long-faced outcome than this exuberant trio set, which features Imbert with Americans Joe Martin (bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums). Though the music has something of an insider's appeal – in that Imbert often favours microtonal pitch-warps and sandpapery free-jazz multiphonics – it fizzes with a wayw...

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