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ARTIST
STEIN, JASON
TITLE
Anchors
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TAO FORMS
CATALOG #
TAO 016CD
TAO 016CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
9/20/2024
"With
Anchors
, Chicago-based bass clarinetist-composer
Jason Stein
arises from a six-year hiatus as bandleader with his most personal, nuanced, and expansive album to date. A masterful player on this difficult-to-master reed instrument (
Dolphy
did it, too), Stein created
Anchors
together with bassist
Joshua Abrams
(
Natural Information Society
, of which Stein has been a member since 2017), drummer
Gerald Cleaver
(whose bona fides run deep and wide), and guest artist/co-producer
Boon
.
Anchors
is a suite of great beauty and potency, moving from meditative calms to lyrical buoyancy to gripping intensity and again to a transformative peace found in unity. Anchors are, so often, symbolic of strength and stability. They reflect peoples' capacity to steady themselves in turbulent waters, allowing them to traverse the deepest seas. With anchors aboard, listeners can quell their fears, weather the storm, and chart forth. In all their looming weight, anchors allow then to be free. With
Anchors
, Jason Stein emerges with a luminous tribute to anchors of his own. Amidst the discomfort of transformation, he reaches into a reservoir of resilience and invites listeners to do the same. Stein's purposefully chosen trio partners on this work, Joshua Abrams and drummer Gerald Cleaver, are two illustrious improvisers rooted as much in the jazz tradition as they are in contemporary experimental approaches. Abrams' grounding in multifarious music traditions gives way to a visionary synthesis of styles, perhaps most apparent in his acclaimed Natural Information Society. Stein has recorded and toured with the group since 2017, and the unmistakable intuitive interplay between these long-time collaborators is a through-line on
Anchors
. Gerald Cleaver, a definitive stylist in the international creative music community, works with Stein for the first time here, shaping the record with a skillful prowess as impressive as his distinctive sound."
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