Chicago avant jazz trio Hanging Hearts may sound like they are inventing things on the spot - and sometimes they actually do with the spontaneous jam Upside Down, but the rest of the tracks on their new album always have a solid backbone structure, a safety net that allows all three players to go where their mood takes them.
Any jazz player who knows this: listening to the other players is key to create something interesting. Chris Weller (saxophones) and keyboard player Cole De Genova (keys) and Quin Kirchner (drums) have mastered the art of cross-pollination, hopping from genre to genre. There is ambient, funk, bebop, free jazz - and even some progressive rock in Strong & Wrong. The sheer joy of the musicians is almost palpable. Whether is it the soft-spoken For Those Who Need To Hear It, the trippy Horizon or the upbeat Rise, they always find a way to both challenge and support one another. None of them has the upper hand, but there is one clear winner: the listener.
Hanging Hearts:
Chris Weller: tenor & bass saxophones
Cole De Genova: keys, synth, synth bass
Quin Kirchner: drums, percussion
Where's Your Head is released via Ropeadope (vinyl, CD, digital). Release date: June 13.
Tracks:- Rise
- Shégera
- Horizon
- Upside Down
- In The Garden
- Strong & Wrong
- For Those Who Need To Hear It
- Fight Song
- It's Aliens
- Flock Up & N Fly
- 06/21 Vancouver, BC @ Vancouver International Jazz Festival
- 06/29 Dorval, QC @ Festival International de Jazz de Montreal - Pub Molson
- 09/11 Chicago, IL @ Sound and Gravity
HCTF review of Into a Myth
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