Rebecca Cline and Hilary Nobel – Enclave Diaspora – Enclave Jazz (no number), 54:25 *****:
(Hilary Noble – tenor sax, flute, congas, djembe, cajón, cowbell; Rebecca Cline – acoustic grand piano, Fender Rhodes, bombo, claves, cowbell; Fernando Huergo – electric bass; Steve Langone – drums, chocalho, pandeiro)
They’ve been together more than five years, and it shows. Seldom has a band this cerebral been so swinging. Drawing from the huge reservoir of the African musical Diaspora spread throughout the Caribbean and the Americas, the band penetrates to the heart and soul of this greatly evocative and highly charged musical heritage and puts its own distinctive stamp on it.
Some of the best jazz music being made today comes from working bands, and Enclave is no exception. Economics, as much as anything, shapes the fortunes of all but the most prominent jazz musicians. Out of the mainstream groups like this can only keep body and soul together by constant live performance. The great advantage—an unintended but highly beneficial consequence—that often emerges is an uncanny gelling of musical horizons, vaulting workmanlike enterprises such as this into the stratosphere.
The group’s highly regarded and widely praised debut, Enclave, is casually trumped by this new venture: There’s a quantum growth in conception and execution. The music of the African Diaspora has become second nature, even as they take it to rhythmic and harmonic places it has seldom before ventured. Latin percussive master Bobby Sanabria perhaps sums it up best in his endorsement of this disc: “Revel in the music of this, Enclave’s second work, as it is brought to you by musicians who have reverence for the ancient and are demonstrating its brilliant future.”
Jazz of great feeling and brilliant implementation.
TrackList:
Crossroads
Rude de Buci
Iyá Modupué
A-Frayed
Improvisaciones sobre Yemayá
Chorinho pra Iemãnjá
Ocean Mother
Nameless
Moab
Mars Bars
Blue Cross
– Jan P. Dennis
