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Enter in: Around the EU clubs when you see such incredible activity spanning the continent - and we are only scratching the surface - you just realise unless wilfully deluded once again that it is nonsense to go on about the riches in any one scene …

Published: 28 Mar 2023. Updated: 12 months.

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Enter in: Around the EU clubs when you see such incredible activity spanning the continent - and we are only scratching the surface - you just realise unless wilfully deluded once again that it is nonsense to go on about the riches in any one scene through any sense of misinformed national pride and lack of information. Look out for more round-ups and links regularly to indicate the pockets of top activity if nothing else. Great jazz can happen anywhere whether in a fashionable address or just as often not

Joining the Brad Mehldau classic trios dots here: Jorge ''Art of the Trio'' Rossy on vibes rather than drums or piano with Jeff ''Day Is Done onwards'' Ballard on drums and the Pablo Held bassist Robert Landfermann completing the sound. In two words: Puerta bliss.

PILLARS OF THE DISESTLABLISHMENT: The Puerta band - l-r: Jorge Rossy, Robert Landfermann, Jeff Ballard - play Milan tonight. Photo: press

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Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez, Hprizm, In The Wilderness, Positive Elevation ****

The electronica side of Gerald Cleaver - the Detroit jazz drummer icon (on such classic records into the freeness as Nine to Get Ready, New Orbit and Wisława) who is as valid in free-jazz and in hard bop circumstances as here. Certainly the ideal …

Published: 28 Mar 2023. Updated: 12 months.

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The electronica side of Gerald Cleaver - the Detroit jazz drummer icon (on such classic records into the freeness as Nine to Get Ready, New Orbit and Wisława) who is as valid in free-jazz and in hard bop circumstances as here. Certainly the ideal DJ booth situation to encounter In the Wilderness contextually would be after a Kaidi Tatham broken beats type record and maybe before more melodic jazztronica later - the sort of thing Blue Lab Beats so capably fashion. While definitely art music you could easily hear this played over the PA in a pick-your-favourite metropolitan bar lounge/hipster night dreamer bunker.

Cleaver's lines created live at Matt Garrison's Shapeshifter are ''rebuilt'' (remixed in all but name) by Hprizm whose background is hip-hop.

But there isn't any discernible hip-hop language here. It's beyond genre - where Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, left off maybe circa Daxaar with the much missed Steve Reid and melts the imagination appealingly into a space which doesn't feel at all quotidien. Best groove by a country mile is on 'GLP3' - if it were twice, three times as long, it would be twice, three times as good. All about continuum listening overall so immerse yourself in the whole caboodle. Reach out.

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