Hear in Now - Not Living in Fear (2017)

Eight years after their meeting and five after the release of the first album, Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid and Silvia Bolognesi - the fantastic trio of strings for Hear in Now - with a new CD, although recorded in two sessions 2012 and 2014. Meanwhile, not only the three protagonists have continued their individual experiences by developing each one a brilliant career, but the same trio has received great accolades from critics and has been the subject of appreciation and attention by an icon Roscoe Mitchell, who has become the core of his most recent training, is the sister who has presented a tribute to John Coltrane in Europe for the fiftieth anniversary of his death in Europe (click here to read the Milan Concert review).

Even here, as in the previous work, the three musicians flock to contemporary jazz and chamber music, including refined writing and improvisation, through a completely unified interaction. Despite the clear and consistent figures, the atmospheres are quite varied: two radical improvisations, perhaps the closest to contemporary work; from the more classically cameristic performance, albeit with the double bass to jazz time, songs like "Last Night's Vacation" and "Terrortoma"; touching and meditating the two gratuities "Requiem for Charlie Haden" and "Prayer for Wadud"; fully rooted in the African and jazz tradition "Not Living in Fear," which houses the voice of Dee Alexander.

It is difficult to talk about individualities, whether for the skill they share them, or because - as they say - their joint interaction makes it difficult to break one's work from the other. It should be said, however, that all three operate with several different styles, using the arc now, pinching, and thus producing a kaleidoscope of constantly changing sounds regardless of the specifics of each song.

It can exemplify the beautiful final track, "Cultural Differences," one of the longest, in which the three arcs change different expression forms and Swift also uses the voice. While the previously mentioned "Requiem for Charlie Haden," as well as being one of the most beautiful moments of the whole work, also offers the opportunity to fully appreciate the double bass of Bolognesi (click here to read the recent interview), which is here the fulcrum Of music but that-in the gift-does not sound for nothing at Haden. "

Tracklist:

01. Impro 3 04:26
02. Leaving Livorno 02:52
03. Transiti 04:24
04. Requiem for Charlie Haden 03:06
05. Cicle 04:38
06. Billions and Billions 01:51
07. Not Living in Fear 05:51
08. Impro 2 05:35
09. Terrortoma 03:35
10. Prayer for Wadud 06:02
11. Cantiere Orlando 05:08
12. Last Night's Vacation 03:32
13. Cultural Differences 07:56