Nicole McCabe Live at Jamboree 2024 - Fresh Sound New Talent: FSNT-671 https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/nicole-mccabe-albums/57277-live-at-jamboree.html https://jamboreejazz.com/esdeveniments/nicole-mccabe-trio/ https://jamboreejazz.com/en/events/nicole-mccabe-trio/ https://nicolemccabe.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-jamboree * Nicole McCabe: alto saxophone * Iannis Obiols: piano * Logan Kane : bass * Ramon Prats : drums http://www.nicolemccabejazz.com/ https://www.discogs.com/artist/10084753-Iannis-Obiols https://logankane.bandcamp.com/ https://www.ramonprats.cat/ Recorded live at Jamboree, Barcelona, Spain, on February 24, 2023. Reviews ~~~~~~~ By Stephen Graham https://www.marlbank.net/ Even better than Landscapes, the US alto saxophonist Nicole McCabe has Landscapes bassist Logan Kane with her while pianist Iannis Obiols scurries pleasingly on Thelonious Monk's 'I Mean You' and drummer Ramon Prats join her at the Catalan capital Barcelona's jazz club Jamboree playing there for the first time and recorded last year. Mostly the tempi are fairly slow so you can hear lots of detail, it gets more heated on the Monk. The audience applause is also enjoyably captured in the sonics enough to make you begin dreaming and imagine being there and isn't annoying. Material here includes that Kane figuring gem from the earlier album on McCabe original 'Finding Beauty in an Unexpected Place' and grows on us even more. The McCabe intro to a fabulous 13-minute version of Benny Golson classic 'Stablemates' that Miles introduced to the canon with the First Great Quintet released in 1956 on Miles (Prestige) and which is massively reharmonised and elaborated upon winningly in the improvisation is top drawer. Tonally that bit more original, timbrally personality laden - how inspiring. -- Turgay Yalçın (tr) https://darkbluenotes.com/subat-caz-rehberi/