Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at Solar Myth

Genre-bending guitar hero Nels Cline returns to Solar Myth for the first time since his mind-blowing four-night residency last year to celebrate the eponymous Blue Note debut of his latest project. By turns swinging, grooving, bracing, mesmeric, and quietly stunning, the Consentrik Quartet comprises saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Tom Rainey. Cline’s music for the Consentrik Quartet underscores his ceaseless appetite for and encyclopedic knowledge of great improvised music: Committed jazz observers might hear echoes of the guitar/sax frontline attack and programmatic scope of the John Scofield/Joe Lovano quartets, as well as the soft-spoken intensity and seamless blend of composition and improvisation that defined the various iterations of the Jimmy Giuffre 3...

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Genre-bending guitar hero Nels Cline returns to Solar Myth for the first time since his mind-blowing four-night residency last year to celebrate the eponymous Blue Note debut of his latest project. By turns swinging, grooving, bracing, mesmeric, and quietly stunning, the Consentrik Quartet comprises saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Tom Rainey. Cline’s music for the Consentrik Quartet underscores his ceaseless appetite for and encyclopedic knowledge of great improvised music: Committed jazz observers might hear echoes of the guitar/sax frontline attack and programmatic scope of the John Scofield/Joe Lovano quartets, as well as the soft-spoken intensity and seamless blend of composition and improvisation that defined the various iterations of the Jimmy Giuffre 3. It also calls to mind adventurous 1960s Blue Note classics by Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, and others. In fact, Consentrik Quartet feels at times like a roadmap to Cline’s rich and considered palette of influences.

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