Album Review: Re-Connection from Greg Loughman
Album: Re-Connection Artist: Greg Loughman Label: Self-Released Website: www.gregloughman.com After hours jazz, the type of music one will hear pouring out of the doorways of a string of nightclubs along a New York City strip in the middle of the night, is the type of escape Greg Loughman presents on his latest release Re: Connection . His collection is reminiscent of the call and response exchanges notably pioneered by the avant garde musicians of the 1960's and '70s like Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler. The solos performed by Loughman's array of horn players in "Isolation" is gripping. Each phrase made by the saxophones, trumpet and clarinet is intense as they intertwine into a lively conversation with Loughman's bass weaving creases into the track. One horn calls to another and a chain of response and reaction commences into an embroiling exchange. The mass entanglement enables the listener to follow the phrasing of each perfo...