Vazesh were a different experience again. This is jazz as world music as international (if not really internationale). This is meditative, pensive, slow and built on the alternative sound of the tar. Tar is a Persian instrument, guitar-like but more resonant, more trebley, plucked but with a different pick, thicker, more rounded, more pointy. It all started with bass clarinet for an extended period, then a bass entry with bow and harmonics, then the tar, then into a groove at low tempo (~minum=40?). After perhaps 15 mins a change to tenor sax. Calm and unexcited. There's a message here and it's not post-bop. Nice and not quite as different as I suggest.
Vazesh are Hamed Sadeghi (tar), Jeremy Rose (sax, bass clarinet), Lloyd Swanton (bass).
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