"Roadside, for
instance, begins quietly with Kaufmann's insistently repeated motif,
Moore's counter-figure on melodica and van der Schyff's cymbal slashes;
the tension keeps building, until finally Moore switches to alto for a
moment of relief. It's an admirable display of the trio's ability to
smoothly go from a barely perceptible tempo to frenzy and back in a
short space of time. Kaufmann and van der Schyff are in excellent form,
and Moore in particular is outstanding: his playing has never received
the plaudits it deserves (an occupational Clusone hazard of being the
relative calm between hurricanes Han and Ernst), but his work here is
absolutely stunning: listen to how, at the end of Corybant, he takes the melody apart in a Lacy-like manner, or to his Jimmy Giuffre-like clarinet on tracks like Ghosts at the Foot and Cuk." www.paristransatlantic.com
"As a trio, they have enough space to maximize the effect of small
details of dynamics and timbre; yet, in the more robust passages, they
have a satisfyingly full sound. Additionally, their respective
sensibilities as improvisers coalesce very well. (...)
Referencing Moores co-op trio with Fred Hersch and Gerry Hemingway, it
is tempting to call this trio 13 Additional Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird. But, the truth is that they far more than
13." Bill Shoemaker, www.pointofdeparture.org