Daylight Ghosts - Craig Taborn

Pianist Craig Taborn has been at the forefront of avant-garde jazz for more than a decade. Daylight Ghosts, a quartet album, is his third album for ECM as a leader. Along with Taborn on piano and electronic keyboards, the quartet of Daylight Ghosts features two other luminaries from the New York scene – reed player Chris Speed and bassist Chris Lightcap – plus drummer Dave King, the leader’s fellow Minnesota native and one-third of alt-jazz trio The Bad Plus.

The sonic fluidity of Daylight Ghosts – its dynamic stressing group improvisation over discrete soloing/accompanying roles – is enabled by the long relationships that Taborn has forged with each of the other musicians, who gathered in New York City’s Avatar Studios with producer Manfred Eicher for the sessions of the album.

Dynamism and spectral ambience, acoustic and electric sounds, groove and lingering melody; all come together to animate Daylight Ghosts.

Tracklist

  1 /The Shining One/ 2 /Abandoned Reminder/ 3 /Daylight Ghosts/ 4 /New Glory/ 5 /The Great Silence/ 6 /Ancient/ 7 /Jamaican Farewell/ 8 /Subtle Living Equations/ 9 /Phantom Ratio/