If you like tart, moody, minor scale-sounding relatively slow-to-midtempo paced avant bop, then this quartet album led by saxist Alex LoRe is made for you, dear reader. Unfamiliar with LoRe? Begin with compelling Marta Sánchez album SAAM the first track of which was released two years ago around the same time Evening Will Find Itself here was recorded. The altoist on this actually unweird new release is with pianist Glenn Zaleski, double bassist Desmond White and drummer Allan Mednard. The tunes are quite dour but have a certain robust stickability to them all as the Weirdears never wearily toggle mid-tempo nor tarry unduly on slower runs, LoRe giving us the lowdown via achey sax lines that hint at a basic bluesiness aided and abetted by a quality rhythm section. Zaleski's solo on 'Stripes' is a bright spot and the LoRe tunes make sense speaking to the architecture of the sound with a knowing appreciator's sense of perspective and even detachment as much as anything. Recorded in a Brooklyn studio towards the end of 2021, the album also includes a tribute to Bunky Green. Out now. The photo - top - shows a detail from the cover art

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