A remote human interrogator, within a fixed time frame, must distinguish between a computer and a human subject based on their replies to various questions posed by the interrogator. That's called the Turing Test.
The sometimes wry and knowing ''Garrett Svoy Test'' meanwhile knows that AI isn't the tail that wags the jazz dog. Certainly an album not afraid to tinker with programming and striking in its skittering, hugely up-tempo runaway motion one that even Chase & Status, the electronica producers who won at the Brits last night, might be at home with.
With more beats per minute than a stack of ECMs, Svoy, aka Mikhail Tarasov, Garrett has worked with before. But this is the first time that the electronica maven shares a co-credit on the cover with Garrett.
The Detroit saxophonist, who was one of Miles Davis' best late-period collaborators and who since has led his own bands to no little acclaim and influenced the likes of next gen wiz Immanuel Wilkins, runs the AI voodoo down with gusto.
The seven tracks on this latest album were recorded mostly in KG's New Jersey living room. Svoy contributes programming, vocals and piano and shares all the original writing and arranging credits with Garrett - the majority of tunes on the album.
The altoist/soprano sax player's last album was 2021's acclaimed and very different Sounds From the Ancestors. And Who Killed AI also feeds in - against all odds - a cover of 'My Funny Valentine'. The good news is it's all fun and often a roller coaster ride. Some of the Garrett sax solos are as ferociously compelling as Savoy period Charlie Parker.
Out on 12 April. Opening track 'Ascendence' is streaming. Photos; Mack Avenue
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