This one's not for me. By the end of the album, I was wondering to myself if my personal "ECM season" had passed and I should no longer look for ECM CDs in the used bins. But then I read the reviews that were less than favorable (save for the folks at Stereo Review) and now I'm thinking this one was simply a swing-and-a-miss. After all, nobody can bat 1.000. (Baseball analogies provided in honor of the opening of the 2026 MLB season.)
Reviews/ratings:
- Stereo Review: "ought to send you scrambling for the nearest record shop"
- Musician: "like gazing at a tree, knowing every leaf and branch is there for a reason, yet unable to trace the whole chain of consequence back to the trunk and the roots."
- High Fidelity: "Putting these three world-class jazzmen together was a great idea that somehow never ignited."
- CashBox: "There is nothing obvious about the music"
- DownBeat (★★½): "it is imbued with a studied hush and false intimacy that ultimately cloys and bores."
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz (5th ed., 2000):★★★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★
- The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (1999): ★★★
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks:
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None
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