DENOMINATORS

Denominators appear to be a relatively new group-certainly this is their first recording. More details are hard to find as neither the CD nor their web site contain much useful information. It appears that the trio is from New York, and that its members come from a variety of backgrounds including jazz, classical and folk traditions, with special reference, we are told, to West Africa and Brazil. A curious contradiction is that the recording is listed under Free Jazz, or modern jazz/free improvisation, in various sites, but much of it appears to be through-composed. This is suggested by an All About Jazz review of their concert at the Brooklyn Conservatory in which Ernest Barteldes writes: "On stage, the group seemed to be extremely structured. Neither Radley nor Gentile took their eyes off the sheet music during the entire gig, and the feel was more of a classical music event read more...