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| Jan 8 &9 | The Green Mill | Exploding Star Orchestra |Rob Mazurek, Nicole Mitchell, Jeb Bishop, Matt Bauder, Matt Lux, John Herndon, Damon Locks, Adasiewicz| |
| Jan 12 | Rodan | Sound Is |Rob Mazurek, Matt Lux, Josh Abrams, John Herndon, Adasiewicz| |
| Jan 13 | The Hideout | Sound Is |Rob Mazurek, Matt Lux, Josh Abrams, John Herndon, Adasiewicz| |
| Jan 14 | Elastic | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| Jan 16 | The Sugar Maple Milwaukee, WI | Assex |Adrienne Pierluissi, Nate McBride, Dave Rempis, Adasiewicz| |
| Jan 20 | The Hideout | Ken Vandermark's Don Cherry Project |with Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate Mcbride, Chad Taylor, Adasiewicz| |
| Jan 21 | Elastic | Ken Vandermark's Don Cherry Project |with Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate Mcbride, Chad Taylor, Adasiewicz| |
| Jan 22 | International House Philadelphia, PA | Ken Vandermark's Don Cherry Project |with Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate Mcbride, Chad Taylor, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 5 | The Velvet Lounge | Nicole Mitchell Ice Crystal Quartet |Mitchell, Marcus Evans, Darius Savage, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 11 @6:30 | Chicago Cultral Center | Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble with Edmar Castaneda |Mitchell, Castaneda, David Boykin, David Young, Marcus Evans, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 17 | The Hideout | OverOva |Jason Roebke, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 20 | The Velvet Lounge | Josh Abrams Group |Abrams, David Boykin, Frank Rosaly, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 21 | Hungry Brain | Set 1:Josh Abrams Group |Abrams, David Boykin, Frank Rosaly, Adasiewicz| Set 2:Wheelhouse |Dave Rempis, Nate Mcbride, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 26 | Padova, Italy | Sound Is |Rob Mazurek, Matt Lux, Josh Abrams, John Herndon, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 27 | Forli, Italy | Sound Is |
| Feb 28 | Rome, Italy | Sound Is |
| March 3 | Lugano, Switzerland | Sound Is |
| March 4 | Zurich, Switzerland | Sound Is |
| March 5 | Wroclaw, Poland | Sound Is |
| march 6 | Poznan, Poland | Sound Is |
| March 7 | Warsaw, Poland | Sound Is | past 2009 |
| Dec 18 &19 | Amsterdam, Holland | Doek Festival with Eric Boeren, Toby Delius, Peter Evans, Adasiewicz |
| Dec 13 | Hungry Brain | ROLLDOWN! RECORD! RELEASE!! |Adasiewicz, Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Jason Roebke, Frank Rosaly| |
| Dec 5 | Philadelphia, PA | Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra featuring Bill Dixon |
| Nov 16-22 | US Eastern Tour | Klang |James Falzone, Jason Roebke, Tim Daisy, Me| |
| Nov 11 | The Hideout | Josh Abrams Group |Abrams, David Boykin, Frank Rosaly, Adasiewicz| |
| Nov 8 | The Hungry Brain | Umbrella Music Festival with Ken Vandermark Topology playing the compositions of Joe McPhee |
| Oct 29 | The Velvet Lounge | A Fox Can Be Hungry |Matt Schneider, Anton Hatwich, John Herndon, Adasiewicz| |
| Oct 25 @2pm | The Green Mill | New Music at the Green Mill curated by Jeff Kowalkowski |
| Oct 18 @2pm | ESS | Adasiewicz Solo Set Ideas |
| Oct 16 @6:30 | DOVA Temporary 5228 S. Harper Ave | Loose Assembly |Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Josh Abrams, JA| |
| Oct 15 | Elastic | Wheelhouse |Dave Rempis, Nate McBride, Adasiewicz| |
| Oct 9 @6:30 | DOVA Temporary 5228 S. Harper Ave | Loose Assembly |Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Josh Abrams, JA| |
| Sept 30 | The Hideout | Frank Rosaly's Oxbow |Rosaly, Keefe Jackson, Jason Stein, James Falzone, Jason Roebke, Adasiewicz| |
| Sept 29 | Rodan | |Josh Abrams, Assif Tsahar, Chad Taylor, Adasiewicz| |
| Sept 25 | The Charleston | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| Sept 23 | The Hideout | Klang RECORD RELEASE!! |James Falzone, Jason Roebke, Tim Daisy, Me| |
| Sept 22 | Rodan | |Josh Abrams, John Herndon, Artur Majewski, Adasiewicz| |
| Sept 22 @5:30pm | MCA | Mikrokolektyw (Micro Collective) |Artur Majewski, Wojciech Romanowski with Josh Abrams and Adasiewicz| |
| Sept 20 | Hungry Brain | Mikrokolektyw (Micro Collective) |Artur Majewski, Wojciech Romanowski with Josh Abrams and Adasiewicz| |
| Sept 14 | The Skylark | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| Sept 6 | Hungry Brain | Lucky 7s |Jeb Bishop, Jeff Albert, Josh Berman, Keefe Jackson, Matt Golombisky, Quin Kirchner, Me| |
| Sept 6 @2:20pm | Chicago Jazz Festival | James Falzone's Klang plays tribute to Benny Goodman |
| Sept 4 @2:20pm | Chicago Jazz Festival | Rolldown! |Adasiewicz, Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Jason Roebke, Frank Rosaly| |
| August 31 @10pm | The Skylark | James Falzone's Klang plays tribute to Benny Goodman |
| August 31 @12pm | Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion | Rolldown Trio |Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke, Frank Rosaly| |
| August 30 | Hungry Brain | Jazz Fest Preview James Falzone's Klang plays tribute to Benny Goodman |
| August 18 @5:30pm | MCA | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| August 9 | Lisbon, Portugal | Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra featuring Bill Dixon @Jazz Em Agosto |
| August 5 | Lincoln Center, NYC | Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers |
| August 2 | Simon's Tavern | Steve Dawson |with Jason Roebke and Me rocking the drums| |
| June 30 | Columbia, SC | Josh Berman's Old Idea @Columbia Museum of Art |
| June 28 | Asheville, NC | Josh Berman's Old Idea@BoBo Gallery |
| June 26 | FONT Festival, NYC | Josh Berman's Old Idea |
| June 24 | Columbus, OH | Josh Berman's Old Idea@Cafe Le Spritz |
| June 16 @5:30pm | MCA | Josh Berman's Old Idea|Berman, Keefe Jackson, Anton Hatwich, Marc Riordan, Me| |
| June 11 | Velvet Lounge | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| June 10 | The Hideout | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| June 7 | Hungry Brain | Josh Berman's Old Idea RECORD RELEASE!! |
| June 3 | The Hideout | Josh Berman's Old Idea RECORD RELEASE!! |Berman, Keefe Jackson, Anton Hatwich, Marc Riordan, Me| |
| May 31 | Hungry Brain | Spacer |Adasiewicz, Nate McBride, Mike Reed| |
| May 20 | The Hideout | Shevitz Solo |I uploaded the set to the myspace| |
| May 18 | Belgrade, Serbia | Loose Assembly |Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Josh Abrams, JA| @Ring Ring |
| May 16 | Cerkno, Slovenia | Loose Assembly |Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Josh Abrams, JA| @Jazz Cerkno |
| May 8,9 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra featuring Roscoe Mitchell |
| April 26 | Hungry Brain | A Fox Can Be Hungry |Matt Schneider, Anton Hatwich, John Herndon, Adasiewicz| |
| April 24 | The Viaduct | A Fox Can Be Hungry |Matt Schneider, Anton Hatwich, John Herndon, Adasiewicz| |
| April 23 | Elastic | Keefe Jackson's Project Project |
| April 21 | Empty Bottle | Overova |Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jason Roebke, Adasiewicz playing drums| |
| April 18 | Palatine, IL | Nicole Mitchell Quartet |Nicole Mitchell, Josh Abrams, Marcus Evans, Adasiewicz| |
| April 18 @11am | Jazz Record Mart | Rolldown plays during National Record Store Day at Jazz Record Mart |
| April 11 | The Charleston | |Nate McBride, Mike Reed, Adasiewicz| |
| April 9 | Elastic | Taylor Ho Bynum Big Band |with Josh Berman, Jaimie Branch, Jeb Bishop, Nick Broste, Nicole Mitchell, Caroline Davis, Keefe Jackson, Dave Rempis, Jeff Parker, Nate McBride, Tim Daisy, Tomas Fujiwara, Adasiewicz| |
| April 8 | The Hideout | |Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomeka Reid, Mike Reed, Adasiewicz| |
| March 18 | The Hideout | DJ'ing "Mallets A-Plenty" in between sets from Hamid Drake and Frank Gratkowski |
| March 14 | Heaven Gallery | |Matt Schneider, Jason Stein, Matt Lux, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 28 | Heaven Gallery | Male |
| Feb 25 | The Velvet Lounge | Nicole Mitchell Quartet |Nicole Mitchell, Josh Abrams, Marcus Evans, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 21 | The Velvet Lounge | Loose Assembly |Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Josh Abrams, JA| |
| Feb 9 | Old Town Ale House | |Jason Roebke, Jason Stein, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 7 | Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington DC | Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers |ElSaffar, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Nasheet Waits, Carlo DeRosa, Zaafir Tawil, Adasiewicz| |
| Feb 1 | Hungry Brain | The Hats |Dave McDonnell, Josh Berman, Anton Hatwich, Dylan Ryan, JA| |
| Jan 28 | The Skylark | !ROLLDOWN! |JA, Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Frank Rosaly, Jason Roebke| |
| Jan 22 | Strobe Studios | Klang |James Falzone, Tim Daisy, Jason Roebke, JA| Live Video Recording for Strobe Sessions Series |
| Jan 18 | Hungry Brain | Loose Assembly |Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Josh Abrams, JA| |
| Jan 16 | The Abbey | Steve Dawson |with Diane Christiansen, Frank Rosaly, John Abbey, JA| |
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A prolific and visible member of Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene, Jason Adasiewicz is quickly gaining widespread recognition from his extensive work as a sideman as well as such high-profile honors as his strong showing in the Rising Star Vibes category of DownBeat's 2007 and 2008 Critics' Poll. Critics have called him "a remarkably adroit colorist" (Jay Collins, Cadence) and "a welcome new voice" (Chris Kelsey, JazzTimes), noting his "probing sound" (Michael McCaw, AllAboutJazz.com) and ability "to create cunning and subtle rhythmic suspensions" (Derek Taylor, Dusted).
Adasiewicz is a member of more than 20 working bands, including Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, the Nicole Mitchell Quartet, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, the Guillermo Gregorio Trio, and Ken Vandermark's Index Orkest.
About Rolldown
Rolldown takes its title from Adasiewicz's four year-old working band of the same name featuring Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Jason Roebke and Frank Rosaly."Composing pieces for Rolldown started with free improvisation on the piano," explains Adasiewicz, who wrote all the music during a year in Madison, Wisconsin in which he supported his wife's academic pursuits and re-evaluated his life while working on a vegetable farm. "The melodies usually comprise more than one voice and the tunes do not follow a chord progression, but were constructed using conventional ABA song form. Harmony is created spontaneously during the group's improvisation, and the rhythm, while deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, at times pulls away from any suggestion of pulse."
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|Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown| Varmint Released September 29th, 2009 with Josh Berman Aram Shelton Jason Roebke Frank Rosaly |
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|Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown| Varmint 180g Vinyl Version Released September 29th, 2009 with Josh Berman Aram Shelton Jason Roebke Frank Rosaly |
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|Jason Adasiewicz| Rolldown with Josh Berman Aram Shelton Jason Roebke Frank Rosaly |
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|Jason Adasiewicz| Rolldown 140g Vinyl Version! Contains tunes from the CD, one alternate take, and one 'vinyl only' track |
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|Klang| Tea Music with James Falzone Jason Roebke Tim Daisy Adasiewicz |
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|Josh Berman| Old Idea with Keefe Jackson Anton Hatwich Nori Tanaka Adasiewicz |
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|Rob Mazurek Quintet| Sound Is with Matt Lux Josh Abrams John Herndon Adasiewicz |
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|Lucky 7s| Pluto Junkyard Jeb Bishop Jeff Albert Josh Berman Keefe Jackson Matt Golombisky Quin Kirchner Adasiewicz |
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|Mike Reed's Loose Assembly| The Speed of Change with Greg Ward Tomeka Reid Josh Abrams Adasiewicz |
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|Chris Connelly| Forgiveness and Exile with Tim Kinsella Ben Vida Josh Abrams Adam Vida Nate Kinsella Ben Massarella Adasiewicz |
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|Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra| with Rob Mazurek Nicole Mitchell Matt Bauder Jeb Bishop Josh Berman Jeff Parker Jim Baker Adasiewicz Matthew Lux Jason Ajemian Mike Reed John Herndon Damon Locks |
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|Exploding Star Orchestra| We are All From Somewhere Else Rob Mazurek Nicole Mitchell Jeb Bishop Corey Wilkes Josh Berman Matt Bauder Jeff Parker Jim Baker Adasiewicz John McEntire Matthew Lux Jason Ajemian Mike Reed John Herndon |
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|Mike Reed's Loose Assembly| Last Year's Ghost with Greg Ward Tomeka Reid Josh Abrams Adasieiwcz |
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|Chris Connelly| The Episodes with Tim Kinsella Ben Vida Josh Abrams Adam Vida Nate Kinsella Ben Massarella Adasiewicz |
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|Overova| Cockroaches Are 100% Virgin Fred Lonberg-Holm Jason Roebke Adasiewicz |
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|Lucky 7s| Farragut Jeb Bishop Jeff Albert Josh Berman Keefe Jackson Matt Golombisky Quin Kirchner Adasiewicz |
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|Harris Eisenstadt| The Soul and Gone with Jeb Bishop Jason Mears Jeff Parker Jason Roebke Adasiewicz |
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|Steve Dawson| Sweet is The Anchor |
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|Aram Shelton| Arrive with Tim Daisy Jason Roebke Adasiewicz |
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|Central Falls| Love and Easy Living Adam Vida Ben Vida Ryan Hembrey Andy Uhrich Adasiewicz |
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|Document Chicago| New Jazz and Improvisation |
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|Simon Joyner| Blue Melody:Live From the South with Michael Krassner Fred Lonberg-Holm Jessica Billey Adasiewicz |
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|Central Falls| Latitude Adam Vida Ben Vida Steve Dorocke Noel Kupersmith Adasiewicz |
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|Manishevitz| Private Lines EP Adam Busch Via Nuon Ryan Hembrey Fred Lonberg-Holm Nate Lepine Jim Baker Adasiewicz |
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|Manishevitz| Rollover |
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|Bablicon| In A Different City |
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|Andiamo| |
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|Through an Open Window| -Order Through Me- Adasiewicz John Dolye |
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|Josh Berman Group| with Keefe Jackson Anton Hatwich Nori Tanaka Adasiewicz |
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Time Out Chicago - May 22, 2008
Off The Beat Path
By the time Jason Adasiewicz dropped out of DePaul University’s School of Music in the late ’90s, jazz was the furthest thing from his mind. It took detours through alt-country and rock & roll and two years working on an organic farm to rekindle his passion. This week, the city’s only working vibraphonist marks his public re-upping with jazz with the release of his ensemble’s eponymous debut, Rolldown (482 Music).
The 30-year-old native of suburban Crystal Lake was raised by a computer programmer and a school teacher. His father and brother were passionate fans of classic rock and new-wave who embraced the youngest son’s fascination with the drums. After playing in what he calls his high school’s “joke” jazz band, Adasiewicz got serious by enrolling at DePaul. “I really wanted to become a ‘jazz drummer in the city,’ and all that it entails. I wanted to gig at Pete Miller’s and Andy’s and the [Green] Mill,” Adasiewicz says. But by his junior year, he began to suffer from an affliction all too common among jazz students—an acute lack of inspiration. “I left why everybody leaves,” Adasiewicz says. “I was frustrated, confused and not sure anymore what I wanted to do.”
But his training had made him a desirable percussionist in the city. Right after Adasiewicz left school, the alt-country band Pinetop Seven, featuring fellow Blue Demon Ryan Hembrey, asked the drop-out to flesh out the band’s onstage lineup. “I loved [the band],” Adasiewicz gushes. “It was just these simple, gorgeous tunes.” A studio project that had quickly become one of the most critically acclaimed representatives of the booming alt-country movement, Pinetop gave Adasiewicz the space and encouragement to experiment with new instruments, including the vibraphone. “It was part of the percussion family where you could beat the shit out of it,” he says with a laugh. “But I was also fascinated with [its] melody.”
Through Pinetop, Adasiewicz would meet—and tour with—several other rock bands, including Edith Frost, Calexico and Manishevitz. On the side, he started working at the city’s unofficial breeding ground for jazz iconoclasts, the Jazz Record Mart. “I learned so much from that store,” he says. “I became a Lester Young freak and got into Ellington, Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra. That’s more education than college.”
After catching local jazz pioneers Vandermark 5 at the Empty Bottle—where he regularly played in rock bands—Adasiewicz realized that working in jazz didn’t have to mean sacrificing inspiration. Vandermark 5’s reconciliation of jazz improv with a punk ethos showed him a new path. “This isn’t the jazz I was getting upset about at DePaul. This is what I want to do.”
His comeback would clear one more hurdle: After he returned from a European tour with Manishevitz, his girlfriend (now wife) moved to Madison to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, and Adasiewicz decided to follow. Once there, he took a job that required no prior experience: working in the fields of Tomato Mountain Farm. “There were days swinging a big scythe, with the sun pounding down on you,” he says. But his absence from the scene only made him more determined in his pursuit, and he began trekking to Chicago multiple times a week to perform.
Since then, Adasiewicz formed Rolldown, moved with his wife back to Chicago and became a key player in dozens of other groups, including Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra and Ken Vandermark’s Double Quartet. Now his inspiration is right in front of him on stage: “I freak out every day about playing with my peers.”
The new album is both Adasiewicz’s promising first step as a leader and a powerful statement. His kaleidoscopic compositions, chock-full of references to thorny post-bop, swing easily and joyfully with the assistance of saxophonist Aram Shelton, drummer Frank Rosaly, cornetist Josh Berman and bassist Jason Roebke. Although Adasiewicz plays as a sideman more often than not, his presence is always unmistakable: Coursing with energy, he doesn’t merely tap his vibes—he attacks them, like a scythe to the vine. In hindsight, those detours look more like destiny.--Matthew Lurie
Chicago Reader - March 22, 2007
Lean and Mean
Depending on how you look at it, the local jazz and improvised music scene is either annoyingly incestuous or deeply collaborative. I prefer the second option. In Chicago, more often than not, mixing up the combinations of players doesn’t just yield varied ensemble sounds, but reveals different sides of individual musicians. Tomorrow night, May 23, a new trio with bassist Josh Abrams, vibist Jason Adasiewicz, and drummer Nori Tanaka makes its debut at the Hideout (cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm will also do a solo set). Based on the four demo tracks I’ve heard, AAT unleashes a stunningly spare, measured sound strongly at odds with the more frenetic and aggressive approach Chicago is known for.
The nominal foreground star and key melodist is Adasiewicz, a constantly improving talent who’s never sounded so restrained. Over loose, spacious grooves, he clearly revels in the gorgeous vibrato of his instrument. It’s not as wide and warm as the tone of someone like Milt Jackson, but it’s there, in all of its stark glory, both in slowly unfolding melodic phrases or in coolly hydroplaning vamps, as on "Cold in Spring." (That song also features a highly tuneful midpiece solo by Tanaka, one of the most unheralded and flexible percussionists in town.) Elsewhere, when Abrams lays down high velocity walking lines, the light touch of the vibist reminds me of the great Walt Dickerson. On “Trance #2,” Abrams plays the bass-like Moroccan string instrument called the guembri, carving out a hypnotic groove over which Adasiewicz unfurls metallic lines by playing the vibes with the wooded end of his mallets. New groups come and go quickly, but based on what I’ve heard, I hope this one sticks around for a while.
--Peter Margasak
