Mark Turner / Palmer,Jason / Martin,Joe * Patternmaster [New LP] 2017-10-06 Big Walter Horton

Big Walter Horton

imperfect warmth

with the overwhelming highlight being the high-speed samba arrangement of 'Man or Boy (Ipanema no Musume)'

California Chase

Collared Dove

Mark Turner / Palmer,Jason / Martin,Joe * Patternmaster [New LP] 2017-10-06 Big Walter HortonIn his review of Mark Turner's last quartet effort for ECM, 2022's Return From The Stars, the Swiss daily Weltwoche's Peter Ruedi described the program as "the leanest, most concentrated, and most inspired improvised chamber music imaginable." It's a fitting description of the tenor saxophonist's powerful quartet endeavors, which seem to have arrived at their most sophisticated and hard hitting on Patternmaster, an album that in many respects feels