Mary Halvorson Trio - Ghost Loop (2013)

For Tune Records: 0010(010)
http://www.for-tune.pl/plyty/mary-halvorson-trio-ghost-loop/

* Mary Halvorson: guitar
* John Hébert: double bass
* Ches Smith: drums

http://www.maryhalvorson.com/
http://www.johnhebert.com/
http://www.chessmith.com/


Reviews
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By Maciej Karłowski
http://www.for-tune.pl/en/plyty/mary-halvorson-trio-ghost-loop/

“No one can play the way she does, no one writes music like hers”; “One of the
most original artists of today’s jazz scene”; “A truly unique voice in the
guitar world” – exclaim the headlines of the jazz press and magazines focused
on improvised music. Can she be labeled as a jazz guitarist, though? Do such
categorizations hold any appeal for her at all? I don’t think so. Nor do I
believe it is worthwhile to try and classify her artistic achievements, as
classifications are hardly valid in her case. Efforts of this kind are
interrupted by Halvorson herself who haltingly remarks: “I don’t enjoy jazz
guitar in general.” If anything, her music resembles indie rock; rock, we
should say, was her first musical experience – the years she spent performing
with such bands as Xiu Xiu and People, or her fascination with the art of Jimmy
Hendrix. If we insist on working jazz into her musical activity, then jazz is
found in her comprehensive view of a creative process in which both the
improvised and the composed form a new picture; a picture being the fruit of
perpetual searching, of constant experimenting, of incessant questioning. One
of the key vehicles to this end is a trio Mary Halvorson set up several years
ago with John Hebért on double-bass and Ches Smith on drums. This group may
even be the best definition of what Mary Halvorson finds essential in music
today. On the one hand, it provides the ground work for complex compositional
and improvised structures; on the other hand, it is an ideally formed organism,
allowing her imagination to roam down the most astounding paths, liberated from
the ruts of style.

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By Paul Acquaro
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/12/roundup-more-guitars.html

Point Culture (fr)
http://www.pointculture.be/album/UH0648/