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Transatlantic Quartet – Live in Basel Saxophonist Pete Robbins, an Andover native and New England Conservatory graduate, recorded his new album in concert at a jazz club in Switzerland with a quartet whose members come from the United States, Canada, Denmark, and Ireland. Together they create an aesthetic that values…

Free Jazz

Transatlantic Quartet – Live in Basel **** On Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet’s “Live in Basel’, a refined smoothness masks a turbulent undercurrent. You can feel it as the melodic heads recede and the group delves into dense thickets of improvisation. Robbins’ sax has a strong clean sound and whether he…

Downtown Music Gallery Blog

Pete Robbins – Unnamed Quartet This Pete Robbins fifth disc as a leader and each one of his previous discs have been somewhat different, on different labels with a varying cast of players: George Garzone, Ben Monder, Craig Taborn & Tyshawn Sorey. For this disc, Pete decided to take a…

Todd McComb’s Jazz Blog

Pete Robbins / Unnamed Quartet – Live in Brooklyn Unnamed Quartet Live is a stunning development, really a leap in style and openness to free-form improvisation (and a step away from electronics). Noisy as it is, my partner thought I was crazy, but I listened to Live in Brooklyn over…

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Pete Robbins – “Unnamed Quartet – Live in Brooklyn” It is sometimes amazing how musicians can speak different “languages”. Pete Robbins’ “siLENT Z Live”was a nice album, modern with some rock influences and lots of creative little angles – especially by Tyshawn Sorey on drums – yet somehow still constrained…