Joe Morris Age Of Everything

Joe Morris (guitar); Timo Shanko (bass); Luther Gray (drums).

1. Tree Branch 2. Way In 3. Age Of Everything 4. Telepathy

Amazingly hot trio session here from unsung guitar hero Joe Morris whose style could be compared to that of Philip Gibbs (Present Tense) or even a laid back Stefan Dill, a sort of melodious Derek Bailey really. The fragile sharded melodies are mere invocations dripping across the fettered brow of a bubbling Holland/DeJohnette-like pulse. Haughty dew-drop notes glisten in the rhythmic sward.

For over 20 years Morris' discordant approach has been founded in greatness: Coltrane's OM was his first exposure to jazz and his style is true to Coltrane and and yet contemporary in it's context and has an Ornette Coleman-freeness about it. Morris may be the purest John Coltrane lineage today. The lolloping Coltrane-inspired froogy grooves (at the scale of wife Alice's Monastic Trio) are sing-song and dense at the same time - Harmolodic perhaps?

Huge ancient bass trunks rise up before us in ligneous cadence. Buzzing cymbaleers hover only a gnat's whisker above every sonic surface. You don't see it? Follow your ears, they know the way.

Now shafts of light penetrate the dense canopy, bouncing from the prismatic fretboard of Morris; the bass tightens the pace and centres the melodic focus; cymbals screech from the treetops deriding a barking snare, the guitar prowls through the undergrowth, feline and deadly, pounces, bites, feeds. Jungle fever indeed, hot and wet. Prepare to get very sweaty. Get Age Of Everything.