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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Brooklyn jazz guitarist Mary Halvorson and her band features Laurie Anderson on one track.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Jan 19, 2024Cloudward is a shimmering, deeply satisfying example of a jazz sextet firing on all cylinders. Prepare to be astonished.
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Jan 19, 2024She grafts and threads striated post-bop harmony, edgeless dissonance, and kinetic drama simultaneously, then blurs the edges expressionistically in crafting a detailed, multivalent, resonant, deeply satisfying whole from seemingly disparate individual elements.
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Jan 19, 2024Halvorson’s fusions of written and spontaneous music reach an entrancing new seamlessness and seductive warmth with this terrific set.
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UncutJan 19, 2024A knottily intricate yet oddly inviting album. [Jan 2024, p.30]
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MojoJan 24, 2024The resulting sound is high-contrast, with graceful melodic resolutions, slippery pitch-bends and experiments with form. Curios that hit at once, but can also withstand lengthy unravelling. [Mar 2024, p.91]
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Feb 6, 2024From free jazz to contemporary modern ensemble music, Halvorson has made thoughtful arrangements for Amaryllis. It’s great to hear her rock out too, playing with an abandon that has been simmering all along.
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The WireFeb 8, 2024This is an overgrown jungle of music; ideas bury one another, making it all the more striking when a pure, clean line manages to weave its way through the tangle and rise, like a flower turning to face the sun. [Mar 2024., p.46]