USA, 2012, avant-garde jazz

Mary Halvorson Quintet – Bending Bridges: Smooth, easy listening, take-you-by-the-hand jazz that leads you down into some wild, risk-taking disintegration, with Halvorson’s guitar as the catalyzing agent boiling away all impurities. Mary is both the fire and the water, that which causes the boiling, and that which boils. Her guitar playing is that good, that creative, that transformative.