The Round-up: We grew up believing in lightning strikes of good luck
Here is some very good new music.
Alex Lefaivre Quartet – Yul (Multiple Chord Music)
This is wholly modern post-bop jazz, but there is something very old-school about Yul. It’s like those classic Blue Note recordings where nothing groundbreaking was going down, but everything about the music was exciting. Because if you get four musicians together who know how to trade volleys and honor a well-crafted melody when its presented them, and have as much fun comping a solo as they do riding one off to the horizon, well, it’s an electrical jolt that keeps you hitting the play button. Bassist Alex Lefaivre gets that done on Yul, along with drummer Mark Nelson, guitarist Nicolas Ferron and an exceptional contribution from alto saxophonist Erik Hove. Everyone sounds like they walked into the recording studio feeling at their best and ready to light things up. Music from Montreal, Québec.
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