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The Meeting (Harmonia Mundi PI07)
With the passing of trumpeter Lester Bowie, AEC will never return to the full force of its long-running quintet, but The Meeting does mark the return of Joseph Jarman, the saxophonist who had been absent from the group for the latter stages of Bowie's life. The Meeting starts with an absolute gem of a Jarman tune, Hail We Now Sing Joy, a vaguely Sun Ralike number that has a graphic sense of cosmic mystery infused with the kind of elegiac yet earthy swinging groove that bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Don Moye nurture with consummate ease. Thereafter one of the most enduring and ...