Sunday, November 18, 2012  HurdAudio Rotation: Lean, Loud and
Lovely  Ursel Schlicht / Reuben Radding: Einstein's Dreams.
2005. Konnex: KCD 5165.  Ursel Schlicht: piano Reuben Radding:
double bass  Einstein's Dreams manages to paint a blurring line
that dissolves the supposed divide between non-idiomatic free
improvisation and jazz.  Providing an artful argument for the
common roles that listening plays in improvised music of all
persuasions.  Here it is the intimate dialog between piano and
double bass shared between improvisers who instinctively know
how to develop the tension and overlapping timbres of their
respective instruments.  The sonic worlds explored within the
piano pulling the sound of piano strings closer to the territory
of extended techniques that Reuben Radding employs on the bass.
 This duo then also takes flights that allow their independent
sounds to flourish, feeding upon the energy of their conversant
musicality.  The reverberations of jazz and European music that
informs this dialog is