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Garabatos Volume One (CD)
This large New York City ensemble is co-led by cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and the less well-known percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado, both of whom divide its original material between themselves. Despite potential difficulties in convening their 10-piece lineup, the band has been gigging steadily around the city, refining its carefully controlled form of anarchy. The biggest components are Latin and avant jazz, and it's therefore tempting to assign these halves to the band's leader-composers. The end product isn't predictable, though, as the interconnections of the various elements are continually writhing away from the compartmentalizer. The writing mostly encourages solos to take place in a competitive atmosphere, with ascendancy of each individual player only possible until they're shunted aside by another. The structures are such that the horns are bustling and charging ahead, sometimes delivering themes and at others firing off stray shots.
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