As demonstrated on this recording/video, free form jazz is best experienced in concert setting. Even if your idea of stretching the musical boundaries consists of Wynton Marsalis, Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask have something to garnish your attention. For this concert recording from September 14, 2022, Kaiser alternates between Bb trumpet, Bb Quartetone trumpet, flugelhorn and even throws in some electronics as he teams with Pasks work on clarinet, tenor and soprano saxes as well as some plugged in supplements.
Filmed by Joshua Kit Clayton, the almost 40 minute opus opens with a lonely and longing solo trumpet, with synthetic sounds serving as backgrounds and segues, as the baton gets passed to Pask’s luminous tenor. Static machinications follow and swallow, with windswept acoustics surrounding Pask’s reed ruminations on the soprano and clarinet with Kaiser’s brass teaming with some space oddities of sound to finally safely land the aircraft on Mars.
The mix of acoustic and intergalactic wires create a soundscape that serves well those who can’t afford SpaceX yet want the same sonic experience of interplanetary travels.