Vein drummer Florian Arbenz has a fine driving sense to his playing. It's a different context we find him in here but not one that might be alien to the sounds we appreciate him for. He's involved in a marathon effort to make a dozen albums with a dozen line-ups and here working from his own studio in Basel Vulcanized finds Arbenz, who is from Switzerland, with Cuban saxophonist Maikel Vistel and French bassist François Moutin. Bill Evans classic 'Waltz for Debbie' is a sentimental way to end the set. But drummers looking for the more in-your-face parts of the album will be more interested in what Arbenz does on Eddie Harris' 'Freedom Jazz Dance'. On it a tumble of ideas provides an open door for the trio to enter into the groove. And without a word of invitation they unfailingly do. Available via Bandcamp
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