https://youtu.be/lD0m9k137MY

muzycy:
Dan Capecchi: drums
Matt Engle: bass
Bryan Rogers: tenor saxophone
Dan Scofield: alto saxophone

Editor's info:
Let Nature Square is the first studio album from Philadelphia acoustic jazz group Shot × Shot. The quartet’s self-titled live album, was heralded as one 2006’s best debuts by a jazz band by the Village Voice, Chicago Reader, and other outlets. Critic Francis Davis said “It’s been ages since I’ve heard a debut recording this adventurous and assured”and the album received praised in the pages of Downbeat, The Wire, Signal to Noise, All About Jazz–NY, and other publications.

Let Nature Square is a giant leap forward for the band. The album documents the evolution of young players growing into their own individually and stretching the boundaries of a collaborative relationship. The music of Shot × Shot has always been nuanced and innovative, but now it has earned the distinction of being truly extraordinary.

While each member of the unit is a skilled improviser and the band incorporates improvisation into the structure of the music, Let Nature Square shows the skill of the group as composers.

The written material is structured, but in a nonlinear way that allows improvisation and unpredictable lyricism. When most people think of collective improvisation, they think of unabashed squaking and reckless abandon. Instead, Shot × Shot assert calm over clamor, balance over turbulance, inspiration over perspiration. The band relies on improvised composition rather than a kind of “trading solos“, which is predominant in other modes of jazz (including even some types of “free” playing).

While the band’s debut was a live date that was subsequently slated for broad release, the process of Let Nature Square was consciously different. Shot × Shot captured the band in an improvisational conversation – a recording that was graciously enveloped by the natural reverb of the chapel in which it was recorded.

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