Johnston, Shelton, Mezzacappa, Nordeson - Cylinder (2011) torrent

Johnston / Shelton / Mezzacappa / Nordeson
Cylinder
Clean Feed Records: CF219
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=359

* Darren Johnston: trumpet
* Aram Shelton: alto saxophone
* Lisa Mezzacappa: bass
* Kjell Nordeson: drums

http://darrenjohnstonmusic.com/projects/cylinder/
http://www.aramshelton.com/cylinder.html
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/projects_collab.html#cylinder
http://www.kjellnordeson.com/Kjell_Nordeson/Cylinder.html

Review
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by Stef


[...]

The overall result is exceptionally good, not only because of the individual
playing but because of the overal feeling of a band that creates something
unique. Like the Ornette Coleman quartet, this is freedom in a fixed format,
not the long expansive improvisations of the later Coltrane or Ayler, but
expressive power without restraints within the confines of concept and
structure and time. It reads like a paradox, and well, maybe it is, the
characteristic of all great music.