Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Zebulon! (2024) [Hi-Res]

THE ALBUM! “ZEBULON!”

Ripping through a set of pieces of fully improvised post-everything-genre-less jazz?!, the trio find their way into new and unknown spaces. Chamber jazz becomes caked in electronics, sometimes patient, sometimes persistent. Krautrock becomes noise becomes ambient concréte, radio waves piped in from beyond the dial and spun back through saxophone, guitar and drums hashing it out in real time. These three are close listeners, and deeply in conversation with one another, never afraid to take a risk and leap off the ledge of an idea just as it comes into focus or to keep hammering at it out until it’s become something completely new. They are serious about improvising but they don’t take themselves too seriously…this is fun stuff, being made in the moment, with joy and searching ambition. Motian/Frisell/Lovano covering NEU! or Lightning Bolt with Evan Parker covering Jerry Garcia Band or Braxton/Jenkins/Smith covering Gavin Bryars…maybe? MAYBE!

Dave Harrington: guitar, sampler, electronics
Max Jaffe: drums, electronics, percussion
Patrick Shiroishi: saxophone, electronics, iPhone

Tracklist:
1-1 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Loosen Up [2:16]
1-2 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - The Scotty [6:54]
1-3 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Fresh Can [7:17]
1-4 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Deep Central Local Group [3:24]
1-5 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Void Pad [2:10]
1-6 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Thirty Three Dollars and Thirty [8:30]
1-7 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Concert Cafe [8:23]
1-8 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - For Tippi [5:14]
1-9 Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Goodnight! [6:08]