Trio of Bloom

"This bold new configuration['s debut] starts off with an explosion of sorts, as the group transforms Ronald Shannon Jackson's 1980 jazz-rock shuffle "Nightwhistlers" into a fusion-scorched thriller that roils with overtones of crime-scene danger ... On "Diana," from the 1975 Wayne Shorter/Milton Nascimento collaboration Native Dancer, the trio uses recording studio amenities as creative fodder, with Taborn on celeste sounding as sentimental (and haunting) as an old-time music box, Cline conjuring atmospheric, hypnotic loops and Gilmore tuning his toms to thunder like orchestral timpani. The 10-minute free-improv "Bloomers" serves as a centerpiece of sorts, with the trio deeply focused in stream-of-consciousness interplay drawn from deep wells of genre-spanning knowledge and influence, ultimately discovering a gold mine of shared affinities and cultivating crossbred blossoms of exceptional beauty".

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