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In
the hands of prolific mistress of the bull fiddle Joelle Leandre
and trumpeter Jean-Luc Cappozzo, the combination of horn and
primarily bowed bass makes for a simpatico blend. While their
47-minute Paris duet on Live Aux Instants Chavires isn't the
first time they had played together, there is still a vibrant
freshness to their dialogue across the eight cuts. Leandre's
prodigious technique and passionate humanity can be taken for
granted, but Cappozzo, who once shared a stage with Dizzy Gillespie,
matches her peerless expression. Now part of the Globe Unity
Orchestra , the trumpeter has also recorded with fellow trumpeter
Herb Robertson and reedman Louis Sclavis to vouchsafe his avant
credentials.
Cappozzo's disintegrating pinched tones are drenched by great waves of
arco bass crashing on the bandstand in the attention grabbing "Instant
chav 1." Elsewhere the simultaneous soloing manifests in buzzing trumpet shards intercepting
arco harmonics, post-bop patterns pitching against volcanic bass eruptions
and muted growls policing operatic declamations' decline into muttering
and whispers, as the two live easily on their wits.
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