The quartet of Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Bobby Kapp returns with Synesthesia, a new recording that captures their deep connection and evolving voice in contemporary free jazz.

Following the acclaimed Ineffable Joy and Heptagon, the group continues to explore spontaneous composition, open form, and strong collective interplay. This time, the music leans further into a modern jazz language, with sharper focus, clearer shapes, and a refined sense of flow.

Synesthesia presents a band that listens closely and reacts instantly. Perelman moves across the full range of the tenor saxophone, from soft, fragile lines to intense high-register cries. Shipp builds circular patterns and subtle melodic ideas that guide the music forward.

Parker anchors the sound with deep, resonant bass lines while opening space for dialogue. Kapp adds color and motion with detailed cymbal work and flexible rhythms.

1. First Color Heard [09:16]
2. Phosphene [13:05]
3. Blue Taste [13:46]
4. Afterglow [09:29]
5. One Sense [16:19]

With the emotional range of the album as wide, as expansive and as wholly embracive as you could only have hoped to hear, the quartet open their new recording on the astutely assured, complex and yet freely imagined First Color Heard and we are then gifted the immersible, dutifully ambient, jagged and yet flirtatiously playful Phosphene, the textured, pulsing, yet staggered Blue Taste, the set rounding out on the impassioned Afterglow, coming to a close on the skittish, yet controlled and honed musical wonderment of One Sense.

Synesthesia is a clear statement from a quartet with shared history and strong identity. It is direct, expressive, and fully alive in the moment! Music that speaks clearly to listeners of modern jazz and free improvisation.

Musicians:
Ivo Perelman - tenor sax
Matthew Shipp - piano
William Parker -bass
Bobby Kapp - drums

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