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Paraphrase: Please Advise
ByWith Screwgun, Berne goes a good deal with the current trenda perhaps inevitable onein that most of what he has available there comes in the download format. Bucking that trend, 2018 sees his re-release on CD of his Paraphrase group's Please Advise, recorded in 1998.
Berne's vision was focused then. It is now. Paraphrase is a trio, no chording instrument: Berne on various saxophones, Drew Gress on bass, bolstered by the clatter of calamity-master Tom Rainey in the drummer's seat. They are raw, often raucous in their improvisational explorations. Here, as in previous recordings, they push the limits of propriety. In the best possible way.
The music sounds like stuff made by hard core New York guys. It sounds like a bad-assed city soundscape, like the trash trucks grinding, hoisting dumpsters, then grumbling on down the alleyway, where a rumble is going down.
Please Advise, with its two very extended piecesforty-one and twenty-five minute in durationrambles and rollicks and rolls; it explores portentous reveries and a rough hew tenderness at times. And when the mood strikes, it riots. Bracing stuff. Nice to see it available on CD again.
Track Listing
Critical Mass; Good Evening.
Personnel
Tim Berne: alto, baritone saxophones; Drew Gress: bass; Tom Rainey: drums.
Album information
Title: Please Advise | Year Released: 1999 | Record Label: Screwgun Records
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