(Babel)
Tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip emerged from the Birmingham jazz scene to co-found London's enterprising Loop Collective. He has also worked with Outhouse and Hans Koller, and become the go-to guy for the tricky art of playing free-fall improv with a melodic shape. Hanslip's partnership with percussionist Javier Carmona has all the hallmarks of a spontaneous free-jazz and improv encounter ? scurrying sax phrases accompanied by light, pattering figures; long multiphonic outbreaths against softly ringing noises; water-over-rocks cymbal patterns; guttural sax blasts driven by racing free-swing or suddenly stopped short. But the erudition and resourcefulness of both players gives this ostensibly austere session a rare eventfulness. Hanslip understands boppish improvising inside out, and his rounded sound and dense, accumulating lines suggest the 50s Cool School sax master Warne Marsh ? but in more impressionistic mode. Carmona is a subtle and very propulsive drummer who sometimes canters alongside Hanslip, sometimes spurs and sometimes trails him. It's the kind of music that could even make free-improv's sworn enemies say, "OK, now I get it."
Emilie de Ravin Tara Reed Avril Lavigne Bridget Moynahan Noureen DeWulf
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