Ben van gelder among vertical screen rooms

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He is from the Netherlands and is one of the best alto saxophone players in jazz under 30, with a luminous, pure, personal sound. Like most of his generation, he wants to be a composer. Unlike most, he is succeeding. This recording contains no less than 14 varied, intriguing, detailed, complete works for septet, several in the one-to-two-minute range.

What is unfamiliar is his fresh concept of ensemble form. This is absolutely current jazz, sprung free rhythmically and harmonically. Yet it reveals both order and scale because Van Gelder thinks orchestrally. Counterlines come and go. Horn backgrounds for soloists move to the foreground then recede. Tunes stop and start over. His wafting alto is memory become sound.

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New York can be a lonely place. Among Verticals provides an opportunity to discover seven highly promising emerging players. To take on Peggy Lee phrase-for-phrase, squeak-for-perky-squeak, with those soft sexy whispers, would be by far the easier course. Vibraphonist Chris Dingman has always been a thoughtful musician, his unique, kinetic style providing both emotional uplift and meditative escape.