{"id":7186,"date":"2016-02-25T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2016-02-25T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T22:22:25","slug":"ches-smith-carves-out-his-own-resonant-space-in-chamber-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7186","title":{"rendered":"Ches Smith carves out his own resonant space in chamber jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ches Smith Trio: Craig Taborn, piano; Mat Maneri, viola; Ches Smith, percussion. hallwalls.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ches Smith The Bell<\/em> (ECM)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music of The Bell<\/em> seems about the interplay of the subtlest of overtones, not unlike the layered harmonic convergences of multiple bells when played on a steeple. That\u2019s a way of imaging and accessing this chamber jazz, which sometimes elides listener engagement with minimalist vamps and fragmented indirection. Underlying, more promisingly, is a sense of internal three-way dialogue.<\/p>\n

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The title piece opens, casting a suspenseful aura. Vivid scenarios unfold — Mat Maneri\u2019s musky viola often serpentine and mysterioso — and arrestingly on \u201cI\u2019ll See You on the Dark Side of the Earth.\u201d A songful purposefulness arises in the latter part of \u201cI Think.\u201d That vigorously fraternal sparring leads to \u201cWhacken Open Air\u201d <\/em>with a funky, push-pull tension that fully employs some of pianist Craig Taborn\u2019s powers of dynamic attack and improvisational resource. \u201cIt\u2019s Always Winter (Sometimes)\u201d seems to tell an under-heated but sympathetic winter\u2019s tale, with each player allowed enough to play to presume a character\u2019s presence. In all, Taborn\u2019s performance skills feel underused, but this is spatial art music. (Kevin Lynch)<\/p>\n

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The Ches Smith ECM Trio performed on Feb. 23 at Bay View United Methodist Church, 2772 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This review was originally published in slightly modified form in The Shepherd Express.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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