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Buster Williams, Unalome, Smoke Sessions Records *****

The epitome of groove and deep song. Mwandishi era bass titan Buster Williams is here along with singer Jean Baylor, saxophonist Bruce Williams, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, pianist George Colligan and drummer Lenny White. Entering a Buddhist …

Published: 24 Feb 2023. Updated: 17 months.

The epitome of groove and deep song. Mwandishi era bass titan Buster Williams is here along with singer Jean Baylor, saxophonist Bruce Williams, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, pianist George Colligan and drummer Lenny White. Entering a Buddhist feeling of transcendence you are always in good hands on an album recorded in a top New York studio last year. Williams says: “As I get older, I discover that there's more over the horizon than you think. The horizon may look like the end, but the closer you get the more you realize that you’ll never reach it. What you can see from where you are, seems to be limited, but with each step, you see more and more.” Proof though none is needed that the dreams of the elders are more meaningful in jazz than practically any musical genre out there.

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Track of the week: Ivo Perelman, Ray Anderson, Joe Morris, Reggie Nicholson 'Warming Up,' Fundacja Słuchaj ****

“Man’s future will indeed come, in which he will evolve to such a sound spiritual state, that not only will every profession not hide another, but every science and every sentiment will reflect the entire scientific sea and the entire emotional …

Published: 23 Feb 2023. Updated: 17 months.

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“Man’s future will indeed come, in which he will evolve to such a sound spiritual state, that not only will every profession not hide another, but every science and every sentiment will reflect the entire scientific sea and the entire emotional depth, as this matter really is in the actual reality.”

— HaRaAYaH (1865-1935)

These dreams are made of this. Twenty minutes is a good length. It is a grown-up clarion call of a length. A free improvisation length. Not a music-for-watching-TikTok-to measure. And yet 'Molten Gold' isn't even that way out or at all. Ah, there's a title for a conference symposium How Way Out Post-Ayler Is Way Out: The How and Why? That will keep a few academics who struggle to tie their own shoelaces but are the real leaders of society off the streets this summer. And the answer? Not very. A quartet affair, the great Ray Anderson on trombone is a dominant force while prolific saxist Ivo Perelman does the poetic bits. And the fabric of bar-less beat and multi-directionalism is provided by Joe Morris and Reggie Nicholson. Drawn from Molten Gold via the Listening Foundation eg the Varsovian Fundacja Słuchaj - a must for the for now thankfully unbraindead among us.