Artist: Daniel Humair, Bruno Chevillon, Tony Malaby
Title Of Album: Pas De Dense
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Zig-Zag Territoires
Genre: Jazz
Quality: mp3
Bitrate: 320kbps
Total Size: 123 mb

TRACKLIST
1.Sequence Hcm 1
2.Sequence Hcm 2
3.Sequence Hcm 3
4.Sequence Hcm 4
5.Sequence Hcm 5
6.Sequence Hcm 6
7.Sequence Hcm 7
8.Sequence Hcm 8
9.Sequence Hcm 9
10.Sequence Hcm 10
11.Sequence Hcm 11
12.Sequence Hcm 12

Personnel
Daniel Humair (drums)
Bruno Chevillon (bass)
Tony Malaby (saxophone)

Two years ago, Swiss drummer Daniel Humair released "Full Contact" with Tony Malaby on sax and Joachim Kьhn on piano for a whirling series of intense improvisations. Now, two years later, the piano is replaced by French bassist Bruno Chevillon.
The playing is no less intense, and spread over 12 "sйquences", that move quite organically one into the other. Although fully improvised, the pieces are quite boppish and Malaby's natural lyricism make this a quite accessible album. Humair's drumming is like on the previous album : powerful and subtle at the same time, a fine quality which also defines the overall nature of the music. Malaby is never less than sensitive, whether in the weak squeals of "Sйquence HCM 4", or in his full-voiced Latin phrasing of "Sйquence HCM 3". Fans of Malaby will recognize some of his signature phrasings on several pieces, yet that does not really bother, quite to the contrary, since there is again such a wealth of ideas that there is no risk of repetition from previous albums.
Whether swinging or abstract avant-gardism, the three musicians feel equally at ease in every environment, and have sufficient stories to tell, playing with tone, timbre, silence, phrasing, rhythm, interaction, density, volume, pulse in a way that can only be admired from beginning to end. The relative shortness of the pieces forces the musicians to create with a rare immediacy: you have to listen and be in the improvisation on the moment to make it work : there is no time to listen and absorb the other's ideas. And that's possibly the unusual power of this album: even if the improvisation is only two minutes long, or even one minute, the trio moves the initial notes or rhythm into a tiny story, with its own characteristics, development and ending, an improvised capsule of intimate conversation. So there is no real soloing, the trio creates the sound together, as one dense mass, yet full of shifting flavors. The last piece, because of its length, shows a different, more expansive side of the trio's possibilities, with room for soloing, and it is a great ending for the album.
Even if the music is less expressive than on "Tamarindo" or "Voladores", possibly because of the compactness of the pieces which does not allow for long developments, the end result is an absolute joy.