You Already Know (Vinyl LP)

American drummer Ted Poor's You Already Know shores up the label's revival. Poor was frequently recorded during the 2010s, often with bands led by Ben Monder and Cuong Vu, but the 2020 release of You Already Know marks his first own-name project since 2003's All Around (Trier). Notwithstanding a little of what they used to disparagingly call "sweetening" from a small strings section, the new album is a duo outing with alto saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo, who shares the composing and arranging credits.

Each of the nine tracks, which clock in at an average four-and-a-bit minutes apiece, plays with a rhythmic motif and a melodic one. Some tracks are upbeat and urgent, others are more reflective, but they are all cut from the same cloth. You Already Know is the sort of album which gives minimalist jazz a good name.

The aforementioned sweetening was added by Poor's co-producer, guitarist Blake Mills. Mills plays a little guitar, acoustic bass, piano and harmonium on the album, and two acoustic bassists and two violinists are also on call. Poor and Mills kept the orchestrations low-profile, letting saxophone and drums retain the spotlight and using the other instruments only to add understated washes and punctuation marks.

You Already Know is, by the by, the second outstanding drummer-led release of 2020, the other being Gard Nilssen's If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (Odin), made with Nilssen's barely tamed 16-piece Scandinavian monster, the Supersonic Orchestra. Poor's album is the flip side of that remarkable release. It has its own sorts of grandeur and abandon, the qualities which define Nilssen's album, but its instrumentation encourages it to be more intimate. Also like Nilssen's outing, Poor's album has accessible, danceable motor rhythms.

Condition
Media: Mint (M)
Sleeve: Mint (M)

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