Free Jazz Music

For those of you that don't know Jeb Bishop is a Chicago area trombonist. I believe he studied Trombone at Northwestern, then while in his 20s didn't play much trombone and played guitar and bass in punk bands! He has done a lot of work with Ken Vandermark (who also appears on this album) playing Tombone and some guitar with The Vandermark 5.

In the first few duets not much structure is improvised, they deal more with sound/soundscapes than anything else. I still can't really comprhend the duets with Lonberg-Holm! (who plays cello) - and I think that's ok it may not need to be comprhended in a typical musical way - which is what is so great about improvisation making one think in fantastic ways about music.
Many of these duets must be listened to more than once. To me anyway, one can't simply 'get' all there is to get on a casual listening.

Bishop's tone on trombone throughout is round and dark, and his use of mutes and manipulating his tone is, as always, very creative, inventive and above all musical. This really comes through on the second duet with Josh Abrams (bass). The duet with Hamid Drake (percussion) is really great, and of course the most rhythmic.

I highly recomend this album to all living humans. 3.75 stars. If you've read this far you owe it to yourself to check out this album. And I strongly recommend checking out all the musicians here in concert. If you live in Chicago this is a must as they all play here all the time.