![]() Zooid, a group as industrious as it is intuitive, makes his case with style.Ĥ. Threadgill, the august avant-garde multireedist and composer, suggests a mutant species of free jazz, wherein “free” and “jazz” are both hopelessly inexact terms. HENRY THREADGILL’S ZOOID “This Brings Us to, Volume I” (Pi) Spring loaded and sharp cornered, this long-awaited studio release from Mr. ![]() His inspired designs, and the diligent effort of three powerful female singers, makes that claim feel plausible, staggeringly so.ģ. DIRTY PROJECTORS “Bitte Orca” (Domino) Dave Longstreth, the gangly mastermind behind this indefatigable Brooklyn indie-rock band, yelps about remaking the horizon on this album, a creative breakthrough. That might have been a liability if the album weren’t such a breathtaking accomplishment, a blast of urban futurism at once hypnotic, kinetic and kaleidoscopic. STEVE LEHMAN OCTET “Travail, Transformation and Flow” (Pi) The year’s head-spinning jazz release came from the alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, who employed spectrum analysis as a compositional tool.
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