Matt Pavolka - Disciplinary Architecture (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Bandleaders frequently have different ensembles that represent particular aspects of their musical personalities. Bassist/composer Matt Pavolka maintains a handful of groups, some focusing on his writing in more traditional jazz formats and others that provide more open, raucous fare. The Matt Pavolka Band represents the latter, their freewheeling style on full display on their new recording, Disciplinary Architecture.

Pavolka established this quartet nearly twenty years ago, the original ensemble featuring guitarist Ben Monder, keyboard player Pete Rende, and drummer Ted Poor. This group played frequently and had a loose book of pieces that were springboards to their openly improvised performances centered around the remarkable guitar of Ben Monder and his special rapport with keyboardist Rende.

In the 2010s, this ensemble became less of a focus, as Pavolka established a couple of other projects. Towards the end of that decade he began to focus more of his energy on this group again. By this point Rende and Poor had moved on and been replaced by Santiago Leibson and Allan Mednard to form a new version of the band.

TRACKLIST

1 An Aged Flamingo In A Dried-Up Pool
2 And Then We Towed New Zealand Out to Sea
3 Lighter-Complected Invaders From the North
4 Ricin Beans
5 Nuts and Bulbs (for Drenka)
6 Defeating the Porpoise
7 The Word for Moonlight Is Moonlight
8 Disciplinary Architecture
9 Vile, In the Sunshine Crawling



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