The echoes of traditional jazz bounce off the walls of Ben Goldberg’s music. The music is warped and strange, as if buckling beneath the strain of being compressed to fit the length of the clarinetist’s latest recording. For this session, Goldberg collaborates with musicians who have a proven track record with that kind of approach. Guitarist Mary Halvorson, tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara traverse time and distance, recalling the sound of New Orleans one hundred years ago as they offer a vision of what it could become a hundred years from now.
1. What About 05:41
2. 21 06:14
3. Fred Hampton 04:48
4. Everything Happens To Be. 07:04
5. Cold Weather 06:23
6. Chorale Type 09:53
7. Tomas Plays the Drums 05:51
8. Long Last Moment 05:10
9. To-Ron-To 05:32
10. Abide With Me 01:10
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar
Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone
Michael Formanek - bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
Ben Goldberg - clarinets
All compositions by Ben Goldberg, except "Abide With Me," by William Monk (by way of Thelonious Monk).
Recorded June 2018 at Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven
Nick Lloyd, engineer
Mixed January 2021 by Michael Coleman
