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…
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…
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…