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- Summary: The latest full-length release from the jazz trumpeter features the E-Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet.
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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Genre(s): Jazz, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Electric Jazz
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Oct 26, 2021Absence is a mutative and nuanced album, but one which rewards both casual listening and extended deep dives.
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Oct 26, 2021It’s tempting to say that Absence is a successful crossover project, but that would make it sound like the music is bringing disparate components together. Instead, Absence feels natural through and through.
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Oct 26, 2021There are not many musicians who could present an album with such a wide sonic palette. That is a Wayne Shorter characteristic that Blanchard and these two ensembles deliver on brilliantly.
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MojoOct 26, 2021Absence finds New Orleans trumpeter Blanchard and regular band E Collective effortlessly shifting textures, with disguised flares of long notes and high blasts casting fresh melodic light on much-covered works Fall and Diana. [Nov 2021, p.89]