Reviews that mention Reid Anderson
August 23, 2021
Broken Shadows
Intakt 362
The Workers
Altbüron
Wide Ear WER 049
These two reeds-two rhythm sessions succinctly point out how improvised music is constantly evolving. Altbüron by four Swiss-based players’ one track is so immersed in uncompromising 21st Century Free Music that its reference points are almost exclusively within that genre. In the same way the American Broken Shadows quartet’s interpretations of 12 compositions by Ornette Coleman and his associates become traditional Jazz with its vocabulary informed by Blues, rhythm and organized melodies. In comparison it shows how Coleman’s seemingly incoherent experimentation of the early 1960s have now become mainstream. MORE