“A massive veteran trio…bassist Stephan Crump and alto saxophonist Darius Jones are not just immense players, they’re also two of the city’s great creative music composers, pushing it into wondrous, unexpected but also inviting spaces.”
- DadaStrain
Read More“Slow Water shows once again, if ever it were necessary, how Stephan Crump is to be considered a major figure of the American improvisation scene, not only as a partner of luxury or co-leader, but as the author of projects in his own name that leave their mark”
AllAboutJazz ****
Read More“As a bassist and composer, Mr. Crump avoids obvious routes but manages never to lose his way…”
The New York Times
Read More“Rewilder is one of the most engaging albums of free improvisation one is likely to encounter”
Free Jazz Blog
Read More“Borderlands is a classic piano trio that can travel for days without circling back or getting lost”
The New York City Jazz Record
Read More“freely improvised music of the highest caliber, with three of the greatest players in contemporary post-bop eschewing any given language, brushing away any rules”
Nowhere Street
Read More“outstanding sound helps make this a truly pleasurable listening experience”
Tracking Angle
Read More“Slow Water is a continuous suite of music that is by turns ambient meditation, chamber swing, modernist spikiness, and harmonic surprise”
Salvation South
Read More“the production is exquisite and the musicians brim with a presence that does justice to Crump’s considerable compositional ambitions”
Salvation South
Read More“the fact that these players never seem to run out of ideas or lose the thread continues to blow my mind”
Nowhere Street
Read More“three fertile, febrile imaginations achieving balance, forging conflict, or doing both at the same time, somehow”
Nowhere Street
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