Back in the Seventies I wore collars like the winged expanse in the picture below – bigger, probably, though not that colour, and not with a jacket quite so also colourful – and on the theme of expansiveness, this orchestral jazz album does just that with at times quite sweeping strings in a seventies filmic thematic way, as with Symbiosis 1st Movement [Moderato, Various Tempi]: C where Evans’ electric piano plays within the swarming, but it is the saxophone wash in the second part of this track that I like most which echoes that of the preceding B part where Evans punctuates this ensemble playing with electronic piano blasts. At times the album is a little symphonic-lite, though really quite pretty, as with Symbiosis 2nd Movement [Largo – Adante – Maestoso – Largo]: A, and Evans’ piano playing here is delicate and also pretty. The second part of this second movement is quite dramatic, orchestrated horns adding to the constructed tensions. Overall, the music is much more interesting than the shirt.
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