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September 2006
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Oriole
Xantone Blacq
Jerry Haglund Quartet
Veryan Weston - The Quintet of Uncertainty
Rich Core
Tassos Spiliotopolos Quartet
Trioscope with Ingrid Laubrock

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September 2006 gig reviews by Chris Parker

Trioscope with Ingrid Laubrock

Wednesday 27

Trioscope have been the rhythm section at Denmark's Christiana Jazz Club for many years, and their resultant cohesiveness and mutual sensitivity, if this absorbing performance with Ingrid Laubrock was a reliable guide, are undeniably impressive.

Playing original material by pianist Marko Martinovic (the son of Laubrock's music teacher), they were simply entrancing, energetic, sinuous, powerful, yet demonstrating a hair-trigger responsiveness to each other's playing.

Laubrock fitted in courtesy of her sculptural approach to tenor playing, carefully selecting each tone and timbre before adding it to the band's sound. Relatively complex music, packed with pleasing wrinkles and sudden twists and turns, was made sound straightforward; Chris Potter's remark about this band being able to take the music anywhere was triumphantly vindicated.

 

 

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