Ned Rothenberg - Looms & Legends (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Solo recordings, at least when they feature instruments other than piano or guitar, can be a challenge even for the most committed jazz listeners. The excitement generated by the dialogue of multiple instrumentalists is, of course, missing, and even the most talented artists can have trouble sustaining one's interest for an entire album. Such releases can be rather rewarding, however, when the musician in question has either astonishing technique or compelling emotional substance—or both, as is evident on multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg's Looms and Legends, his first solo recording since 2012's World of Odd Harmonics (Tzadik). The album can certainly be appreciated for its technical brilliance—no surprise to anyone who has followed Rothenberg's long and accomplished career. But some moments approach something deeper than just instrumental wizardry, allowing Rothenberg to offer music that, as he puts it in the album's liner notes, can be an "aural refuge for mind and body."

TRACKLIST

1. Ned Rothenberg - Dance Above
2. Ned Rothenberg - Denali
3. Ned Rothenberg - Resistance Anthem
4. Ned Rothenberg - How You Slice It
5. Ned Rothenberg - Plun Jah
6. Ned Rothenberg - Brief Tall Tale
7. Ned Rothenberg - Urgency
8. Ned Rothenberg - Flurry
9. Ned Rothenberg - Bounding Not Binding
10. Ned Rothenberg - Inner Briation
11. Ned Rothenberg - Tender Hooks
12. Ned Rothenberg - BellKeyBell
13. Ned Rothenberg - 'Round Midnight



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