Variations On Master Plan

These four veterans of new music (two Americans - Joe Fonda (bass), and Michael J. Stevens (piano), and two Europeans - Hann Bennink (drums), and Gebhard Ullmann (reeds) need no introduction. Bennink is a new member of this quartet, but he sounds as if he has been looking for these partners all his life. Stevens, Fonda and Ullmann contribute their own compositions and there is one piece collectively improvised as well as a smashing Ullmann arrangement of Nino Rota's "Parlami Di Me". Contemporary, modern jazz at it's best.