BRUFORD LEVIN UPPER EXTREMITIES

"B.L.U.E. Nights"

(Discipline, 2000)

Applauses. Bruford playing obsessively with the drummer of their drums and the plates for more than three minutes, until Levin and their crazy contrabass with arch go opening the game. The diabolical sounds of David Torn guitar are hardly able to frame to Chris Botti's appearance with their trumpet. They spent more than seven minutes and "Etude Revisited" enters, with its stick base, while Bruford begins to rollick (as always makes it) dividing, subdividing and subdividing the divisions of the times again. When being added to the theme Botti and Torn, the machine advances with an unstoppable movement. If the album premiere of BLUE was a difficultly unclassifiable work, this double live registration it demonstrates how four musicians they shake the air with sounds coming from who knows what it leaves of the sound spectrum. The themes are structured with a freedom as which is usually in lops jazz groups, although the music that arises is not jazz. BLUE has the force of a rock group, but that makes it is not rock. A certain experimentation air is breathed, without it is experimental music... Crimson, Miles Davis, Terje Rypdal, Mingus, John Zorn, Hank Roberts, Weather Report. All these classifications are good to define the music of four musicians that together, they traffic a sound that is own and particular where the obsessive and feeble guitar of Torn you can take of marvels with the, for moments, melodic slope granted by Botti and their trumpet, while Bruford and Levin go him adding fuel to a machine of making music that reflects the today of four musicians making today's music, with some the past premonitions and memories of the tomorrow.

Carlos Salatino