(Free Jazz) Tim Daisy, Ken Vandermark - The Conversation - 2011, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Tim Daisy and Ken Vandermark / The Conversation
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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 2011
REM DISCID 3B0DB205
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PERFORMER "Tim Daisy and Ken Vandermark"
TITLE "The Conversation"
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Tim Daisy and Ken Vandermark has played together a countless number of gigs in a numerous (but definitely easier to count) Vandermark's project, starting with the duo, through The Vandermark 5 up to the large ensembles like Resonance. "The Conversation" is their third duo release after the self-released "August Music" (2007) and the double lp on Laurence Family "Light on the Wall" (2010).
Not only do the musicians know well each other but the faithfull listener know them quite well too. This album holds no surprises. Break no barriers. And it doesn't need to. The playing is so honest, refreshingly joyfull, dynamic and energetic. "Pasfoto" starts with a soulfull bass clarinet, "4 North" brings the gritty and funky tenor saxophone to the table. "Impasto" with Vandermark on clarinet leans more onto european chamber music and "Anthology Moves" moves through minimalistic sections (tongue technique, metallic tin sounds) and extrovertic moments of heavily distorted saxophone cries. "Fifty Cent Opera" the longest (20 mins) track of the album is a multi-faceted suite that kind of summarize the entire album and ends with a killing saxophone solo that starts light and spiritual and becomes an energetic funky-rock workout.
Obviously the above is a simplification, those musicians have developed a connection that can only be forged through shared experiences and a mutual understanding that goes well beyond just the musical relation. The music is full of shadings, and is kept constantly stirred and varied, between the whisper and the fierce cry that create the sparks, between the abstract jumps, spiralling lines and downright catchy. They keep each other on their toes, they follow each other so closely that it kind of turns out they're just running in the same direction. It's refreshingly honest, direct, quite accessible in fact, light and natural, engaging as the actual conversation would be. Pure and simply. Rhythm and melody.

What I wrote about last year's duo album "Light On The Wall" by drummer Tim Daisy and clarinettist/saxophonist Ken Vandermark could almost entirely apply to this album. This is their third duo album. In short : it is free and it funks. It is jazz in its purest form : two artists enjoying the fun of lyricism interacting with rhythm, conjuring up emotions of happiness, but also of sadness. The sublety is not only in the finesse of the emotional or sonic shadings that you get with lots of new music today, but also in the straightforward improvisation, with the subtlety being fully present in both musicians' maximal use of their skills, with ear-candy to boot. Not ground-breaking, but highly enjoyable.
The album was recorded at the Velvet Lounge, Chicago, on May 6th, 2010 and at Elastic, Chicago, on March 3rd, 2011. (Stef, Free Jazz)

Tim Daisy - drums
Ken Vandermark - Bb and bass clarinet, tenor sax