July 5th, 2009 by groundswell

Here is a nice review of the Wayne Shorter Quartet show in Montreal.

“With Geoffrey Keezer occupying the bench, they weren’t quite that tonight. The substitution exposed the framework a bit, revealing the transitions between tunes (there’s never a break in the music) where normally the whole thing becomes an amorphous organism from which melodies and synchronicities appear like changes in expression. But Keezer brought a sharper, more forceful attack, which egged drummer Brian Blade into leaping off of his stool on several occasions – more than once, he had to regather the kit that he’d pushed away from himself.”

Read the whole entry here.