Rob Clutton Trio — Counsel of Primaries
(out April 17th, 2020 on Snailbongbong Records)

Genre(s): Experimental, Jazz, Free Improvisation
RIYL: Paul Bley, Anna Webber, Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek

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ABOUT: DownBeat recently touted bassist and composer Rob Clutton’s 2019 disc Offering “expansive and sensitive in spirit,” and this could very well apply to the idiosyncratic open-ended compositions heard here. Clutton has been heard alongside Jandek, Arnold Dreyblatt, Tony Malaby, and Anthony Braxton and was also a member of award-winning big band the Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra (NOJO). Over the span of ten original compositions, he leads brilliant horn player Karen Ng and drummer Nick Fraser, whose own work has been gaining momentum thanks to a recent disc on Astral Spirits.

Press:
Roundup — Jesse Locke, The Best of Toronto’s Experimental Jazz Scene, Bandcamp Daily
Roundup — Fabricio Vieira, Made in Canadá, Freeform FreeJazz
Roundup — Ed Pinsent, Three Brief Reports From June, The Sound Projector
Roundup — Raul Da Gama, Outward Bounding Canadians, That Canadian Magazine
Review — Danny De Bock, JazzHalo
Review — George Harris, Jazz Weekly
Review — Nicolas Dourlhès, Citizen Jazz (in French)
Review — Geert Ryssen, Full Circle Music Blog
Review — Ben Taffijn, Nieuwenoten (in Dutch)
Review — Andy Hamilton, Jazz Journal
Review — Ken Waxman, JazzWord
Review — Bill Meyer, Dusted
Review — Chris Baber, JazzViews
Review — Rafał Zbrzeski, Dzikie Nuty 2.0
Review — Troy Dostert, All About Jazz
Review — Stuart Broomer, The Whole Note
Review — Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly
Review — Endaural
List — Tim Mah, Canadian Jazz Releases of 2020 (so far!), Four On The Floor
Mini-review — Chris Spector, Midwest Record
Micro-review — Kevin Press, The Moderns