Joëlle Léandre, Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri - hEARoes

“Improvisation”, “free improvisation”, “improvised music” …any encounter with the higher frequencies of this music makes the terms we employ to name it slightly awkward. “Improvisation” a noun, a thing; “improvised” a past participle; “free” suggests something easy, maybe disconnected.

There’s no easy solution, but when listening to this music there should be a name that suggests its dynamism, its enduring reshaping, the way it shifts and grows in depth the more often we hear it. What is most striking here is the music’s connectedness. It’s music that’s simultaneously becoming more connected and more unstuck the more often we hEAR it, music of great hEARt and great mind. Stuart Broomer

Mat Maneri: viola
Joelle Leandre: double bass
Craig Taborn: piano