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  • Real Time

    ALP118

    Artist: Steam

    Label: Atavistic

    Chicago multi-reedman Ken Vandermark is involved in so many bands and albums it's hard to keep track of them all. While most folks will consider REAL TIME avant-garde jazz, Steam is marginally more straight-ahead than many other Vandermark projects--the instrumentation is reeds/piano/bass/drums and most tunes have a theme-solos-theme structure. TIME is a whirlwind blending of hard bop and free jazz, full of flexible rhythms and bracing, edgy but good-humored solos.