VERT - NEW THING AT NOVARA (CD)

"New Thing at Novara, despite having been constructed in a one-week frenzy in a hotel room in Novara during the festival, incorporating recordings of each of the concerts immediately after they took place, is simultaneously two things: a richly representative document of the singular breadth of VERT's music, at once groovy, noisy, tender, beguiling and slyly humourous; and a respectful testimony to the huge variety of musicians who performed at the Festival, without whose support this CD would not have been possible: Mina Agossi, Nik Baertsch's Ronin, Di Terra Trio, Louis Moholo & Stan Tracey, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Matthew Shipp & Guillermo E. Brown, Gianluigi Trovesi, David S. Ware, The World Saxophone Quartet." (label info)