LISLE ELLIS

What We Live (Lisle Ellis, Larry Ochs, Donald Robinson) with guests Glenn Spearman, Miya Masaoka, Paul Plimley, India Cooke and others, recorded live at Mobius Studio, San Francisco, on June 3, 1994.

The performance on this LP was recorded live at Roulette in New York last year. I have appreciated Knuffke's playing and music before, and I will do it again here. His tone is always full and warm, and he's a master at taking tough bends easily. The music is jazz in its purest sense : improvisational joy and emotional expressivity in a compact form. There is nothing but pulse in the pieces they play, even if the rhythms are not always explicit or when there are no patterns, the three musici…