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...Coltrane’s “Blue Train” was a warm-up cruise, a Monk medley smoothed out the edges and, in the second half, “A Night in Tunisia” was uplifted by Gerald Cleaver’s drum solo....
...Here they were underpinned by the stripped-down percussion of Gerald Cleaver, who replaced the album’s Tyshawn Sorey on drums....
...When William Parker (bass), Craig Taborn (piano) and Gerald Cleaver (drums) operate as a trio they call themselves Farmers By Nature....
...Pianist Craig Taborn, bassist William Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver might harvest many strands of music into their moody improvisations, but only rarely do they conjure a rural idyll....
...Cleaver 25 years ago, and this unit, with Thomas Morgan on bass, has been together for eight years....
...The Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker first played with the left-field US rhythm team of Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver in 2003....
...J.D.Allan is a sublime tenor sax foil, Gerald Cleaver a master of springy beats and Joanna Pascale a deep-voiced bonus on “Moondrift”. Jeremy Pelt Soul (High Note)...
...Cuban pianist David Virelles’ long lines and light harmonies matched the leader, and Gerald Cleaver was both an interactive powerhouse and spaciously elliptic on drums – the lop-sided swish of Paul Motian...
...The interplay is high gloss as Craig Taborn’s rippling piano supports Tim Berne’s elegiac sax and Gerald Cleaver adds eddies of rhythmic flux....
...Usually they work with drummer Gerald Cleaver in a tight-knit free-jazz trio – they have recorded three albums together – but he was unavailable for this gig, and UK drummer Mark Sanders was making a first...
...The band, driven by drummer Gerald Cleaver, sail through eight bespoke originals with the relaxed finesse of well-travelled companions....
...Gerald Cleaver on drums and the remarkable bassist Thomas Morgan pare ideas down to their essential core and, like Taborn, toy with time and space....
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