Search - Rob Brown :: High Wire

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Mark Chodan | Montreal, Canada | 03/11/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Along with his recordings with William Parker's In Order to Survive quartet (William is also the basist on this recording), High Wire ranks along the best of Brown's performances.While I know of some people who are not comfortable with Brown's tone on alto, this recording transcends notes, tones, lines.... Brown's sound is very much in the line of Jimmy Lyons and is no less strident than the latter's, but this trio performance is so intense that I found myself flying with Brown, Parker and drummer Jackson Krall, with my mind far beyond the texture of Brown's actual tone.This is not "easy" music, as anyone familiar with some of Brown's other outings can attest, but it is oh so captivating!"