Jonathan Reisin: Too Good X Unreality

by Dan McClenaghan
May 10, 2025

Saxophonist Jonathan Reisin says of the tunes presented on his Too Good X Unreality: “These pieces are especially fragile." They are. They are like butterflies in their fragility, vignettes of space and delicacy possessed of an underlying tensile strength. A complexity/simplicity dynamic is there.His trio consists of his tenor and soprano saxophones, Shinya Lin's piano and prepared piano and Jarred Chase's drums.There is a sense of the musicians sitting down without any preplanning and slipping into ...