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L.A. Jenkins / Hasan Abdur-Razzaq / Adam Smith: Intrusion

By Mark Corroto
August 6, 2014
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L.A. Jenkins / Hasan Abdur-Razzaq / Adam Smith: Intrusion

This outwardly simple and uncomplicated trio recording by L.A. Jenkins matches three improvisers with almost identical musical visions. The guitarist collaborates with saxophonist Hasan Abdur-Razzaq and drummer Adam Smith. Both partners are versed in the exploratory music of

Sun Ra

piano
1914 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Sun Ra,

Albert Ayler

saxophone, tenor
1936 - 1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Albert Ayler, and

Pharoah Sanders

saxophone, tenor
1940 - 2022

" data-original-title="" title="">Pharoah Sanders. And both are members of The Wizards, a quartet that mines the cosmic and free jazz landscapes of the 1960s and 70s.

Jenkins, a student of

Ornette Coleman

saxophone, alto
1930 - 2015

" data-original-title="" title="">Ornette Coleman's harmolodics, has developed a sound that is part

Bern Nix

guitar
1950 - 2017

" data-original-title="" title="">Bern Nix and part

Bill Frisell

guitar, electric
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Frisell, but is also crafted and original. His explorations begin with freely improvised sound that coagulates into imperturbable sonic structures that are informed by patient and stoical music leanings. His previous release was Clarity of the Peculiar (Edgetone, 2012).

Intrusion carefully wraps its free jazz in a blanket of gentle sound. Jenkins prefers to mask his improvisations with a cover of ambient sound. Explosions are eschewed as the trio blows waves of saxophone & bass clarinet over cymbals. Jenkins' sound is delivered much like Bill Frisell's guitar when he was the choice of drummer

Paul Motian

drums
1931 - 2011

" data-original-title="" title="">Paul Motian in the 1980s. Each piece here tip-toes into consciousness. Even the extroverted Ayler-sound of Abdur- Razzaq's saxophone on "Second Light" toes the line of this session. Things never get noisy, even when the music opens up on "Cohesion @ The Parallel Universe" and "Final Flight." The latter piece finds Abdur-Razzaq taking up the cello to balance Jenkins' probing gestures and Smith's rumbling guidance. The music here is the equivalent of a polished gem with multi- facets. Quite the discovery.

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Track Listing

Intrusion; Constellation; Second Light; Invocation; Cohesion @ The Parallel Universe; Cascading Singularities; Matrix Of Investigation; Syncopated March Through Neb��uland; Linear Perceptions; Final Flight.

Personnel

L.A. Jenkins / Hasan Abdur-Razzaq / Adam Smith

Hasan Abdur-Razzaq: reeds, cello, percussion; L.A. Jenkins: guitar; Adam Smith: drums, percussion, synthesizer.

Album information

Title: Intrusion | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Self Produced

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