spontaneous creation and a nice surprise ...

The drummer Makaya McCraven is probably unknown to you. Rest assured, it was for me as last week. This young Chicago musician serious team's first self-produced album. The interest is that it comes dune First of capture "live". Over twenty concerts given in 2014, and finally 48 hours of musical bands as the drummer combined into one disc (73 minutes)! The result is this wonderful item. The sounds are unctuous and times they are of breathtaking beauty. Here we have music that prodigiously tells our time, but it is also an unclassifiable music (between modal jazz, hip hop rhythms and jazz fusion). Accessible, "In The Moment" gives an overview of the young jazz scene in Chicago. As one blogger on Music Is My Sanctuary, this disc could become as important as the In A Silent Way by Miles Davis. The concept comes close anyway. Having fully produced music, Makaya McCraven implies a freedom of tone extraordinary. This is felt especially as the musicians at his side really have a capacity of natural expression, without forcing any respect whatsoever. For what is extraordinary here is the naturalness with which the batsman dialogue with his followers (the vibraphone Justefan, for example, with floral melodies, recalling how this instrument included in the jazzy landscape and seems to do a return strength through Chris Dingman and Jason Adasiewicz, both of Chicago as well).

The panel of musicians present is quite impressive since the amateur notice the presence of guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Joshua Abrams (both noticed alongside Matana Roberts). And so it is that from "Lonely" (track 5), the disc becomes contemplative how to "In A Silent Way" by Jeff Parker's guitar and trumpet Marquis Hill. On other beaches, we salute the performance of saxophonist Tony Barba and De Sean Jones (not to be confused with the trumpeter Sean Jones). Sure, we've heard this kind of music, or say what kind of musical approach, especially in this disc trumpeter Corey Wilkes (Droop It appeared under the label Delmark in 2008). The innervated groove during these 73 minutes seems to me this says much more exciting here. There's music in Makaya McCraven questions, and a lot of the final ellipsis quality sound recording adds to the interest of the cake.

So how musicians sculpt the sound, their "sound", while mingling jazzy Chicago tradition, while also playing admittedly short melodies in places but very melodic in the end, is exemplary in this respect (out put for "First Things First" and "Finance", the ten new titles never exceed three, four minutes, and it is mostly as sketches, or let's say well marked melodic ideas, musicians seeking the spontaneous creation in a very attractive volume). In "On The Spot and Butterscotch" nightlife and relaxed assured. With "Three Fifths A Man" (track 10), harmonics webs of Justefan contribute to this club atmosphere, the guitar of Jeff Parker giving his side of juicy riffs, not hesitating to make the distortion. Groove, melodies, rhythms tasty, ALL OPERATING should delight a young audience, wanting to abandon the free jazz, but also the young at curious about what is happening in the Great Lakes region. Now then to say that this is the record of the year, as reported by a lot of columnists DOUTRE Atlantic, it is a step that I will not cross. The fruit still seems a bit green. But it is certain that the concept is fascinating. It is especially a disc that you will not hesitate to replay. We will come back necessarily very pleased. In the year 2015, "In The Moment" is one of the major drives certainly it is important not to miss.