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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | November 21st 16 |
Free jazz is one of the harder genres to get into, and it's no surprise why. Dissonance, a chaotic feel to the music, and many things happening at once are just some things that make it a challenge. Ingrid Laubrock knows the ins and outs of the genre as well as anyone, and understands perfectly what one can do to make a free jazz record that is not only memorable, but a bit easier to digest as well. The clash between soft and loud is the main theme on Serpentines musically, as moments of tense, quiet jazz complete with drones are smashed to bits by intense flurries of improvisation. However, because of this dynamic and the presence of some recurring melodies, the music feels far more put together and at least with a baseline structure to it. The record sounds great, with each of the instruments receiving clarity, and the playing is impressive in its shifts between tranquility and dissonance. It's another avant-garde jazz record for the books for 2016.
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