Mats Gustafsson & NU ensemble | Hidros 6 – Knockin´ | Not Two Records
Not Two, 2015 | MW 924-2 | CD Mats Gustafsson – slide, tenor, baritone and bass saxes, electronics and piano mate | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – bass | Jon Rune … Continue reading
Not Two, 2015 | MW 924-2 | CD Mats Gustafsson – slide, tenor, baritone and bass saxes, electronics and piano mate | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – bass | Jon Rune … Continue reading
Swedish azz is not a joke or a sideshow, as it might appear in a career as drivingly exploratory as Gustafsson’s. Nor is it merely a verbal game, playing with the derivations of jazz/jass/yazz. It is both homage and homecoming, a warm acceptance of the view from a small window on the world. It doesn’t take up slingshots or seek to knock down the neighbouring structures. It is accepting music, as rich and as heady as cognac. — Brian Morton Continue reading