A free jazz session recorded in Brussells between trumpeter Nate Wooley and half of the Daniele Martini Quartet--saxophonist Martini himself and drummer Joao Lobo--stepping in and out of modal jazz with a contemplative approach, using extended techniques to great effect, Lobo handling the foundation and rhythm in absolutely impressive ways.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard foldover Recorded in Salle des Harpes, Brussels, Belgium, in April , 2011, by Robbie Kieckens.
"The recording is from 2011 and has long requested that it be edited on disk. This ended up happening this year (2016) in the almost unlikely Creative Sources - "improbable" given the markedly jazzy character of the music that in these subjects is heard and "almost" because the Lisbon publisher that we have become accustomed to identify with the most radical tendencies of the Improvisation and electroacoustics until recently has been giving some attention to jazz.
In Legacy of Ashes we find two members of the Tetterapapters, a quartet who participated in the recent Jazz edition in August, playing with trumpeter Nate Wooley at a session in Brussels. If the coordinates are very obviously those of free jazz, although in a more reflected and introspective approach than is usual to find in this area, there is a general preference for tonalism and modalism on the part of Wooley and the saxophonist Daniele Martini, with Portuguese Joao Lobo more focused on the exploration of rhythmic patterns than on the textural (dis) constructions that are usually the norm.
The theme "Operation Mocking Birds" is an example of this, with its Africanist character that seems to summarize everything that has been done with such an allusion in the history of jazz. If the games established between the trumpet and the saxophones (tenor and soprano) are very interesting, with Martini outdoing himself, the most remarkable work is developed by the drummer. This is perhaps the best record to listen to realize the whole dimension of the superlative capabilities of João Lobo."-Rui Eduardo Paes, Jazz.pt