Echoes Quintet

Featuring: William Parker, Hamid Drake

2007 release ** ""Echoes," a 2006 live quintet featuring Olivieri alongside Innarella on saxophone, Battiston on piano, and the prodigious rhythm section of Parker and Drake. A pulsating energy that free avant-garde revisits with a distinctive, modern harmonic structure, with clear structures that allow for intense improvisational vigor. Five dense tracks of near-perfect dialogue, with Innarella and Olivieri chasing each other in a play of references underscored by Battiston's percussive touch and Drake's drumming. Honorable mention goes to Parker, who consistently provides crucial support in timbre and body and is absolutely prodigious in his distinctive signature style of funk-free "Is Life a B-Movie?", the album's gem."