Metal Reviews

Initiating into this release this evening.

By far some of the most musically rich jazz I have ever heard. My first time listening to this album. 1969 release.

On the last track


A marvelous live recording with wide array of emotional range and technical abilities. A live & solo piano work.

Mid-way through


A pleasant revisit of an elder recording going back over 2 years. All are more than excellent on this live album.

A two-disc live album by Evans and his stable Co. who went on to produce some of the most extraordinary jazz that was the rarest to be ever materialized.

Henderson's ability to summon clamor, and dissonance, would by the way of the work itself, progress towards resolve, was a quality of his saxophone-playing, and his compositional ability, and his accompaniment, find an eventful freedom, time after time, with gifting the listener, with the gathering of musicians, that would never lead each other astray, or to be disloyal, to others' individuated acumen.

Certainly the kind of music most fitting for one of the most beautifully pleasant days over the past 7 months or so of 2025.

A late night Safari.

A rather more difficult work to full come to terms with. On my second listening session. The bass work by Carter and the piano work by Hancock are brilliant but I don't think the trombone by Fuller truly works to be played on this album. I also think Hutcherson on vibraphone could have played a much more active role.

Henderson's conducting of the entire group and the dead-tight nature of their chemistry as a band, leaving no space for thinking otherwise, the whole of the band display compositional layers, at the apex of their performance, never playing too much, or too little, exhibiting restraint, but also virtuosic playing, never desiring to show off their abilities, or to reveal too much, but to display the real performance power of spontaneous, and the effortless manifestation of structure, melody, rhythm, and paste.

Will need much more time with this dense and complex work.