https://youtu.be/E8brz6Cio4Y
Herb Robertson - trumpet, cornet, mutes
Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Julien Petit - tenor & baritone saxophones
Marcin Oleś - double bass
Bartłomiej Brat Oleś - drums

Reviews:
"(...) Considering that I hadn't heard of Mr. Petit before this, he sounds pretty great. "Fluttering" begins with some suspenseful mallet work from Brat with distant, floating horns soon entering. "2 Phone Addicts" erupts freely the quintet in a powerful flurry of activity that is focused and free simultaneously. "It Doesn't Work Like That!" simmers with more spacious, free activity that features some strong fluttering horns. Throughout this disc the consisting amazing Herb Robertson spins and twists his trumpets inside-out, always pushing those around him to reach deeper within and higher to the heavens and beyond. (...)
(BLG, Downtown Music Gallery)


"Robertson transforms his instrument into many things; makes it squeal, purr and chortle; plays beautiful soaring, almost classically contoured cries; and works out a Doppler shift effect, with fluffier notes approaching and receding, only to gradually skew out of equilibrium and become syncopated with ominous growls and squawks."
Joseph Milazzo / One Final Note

"An unsung hero of jazz brass playing." Peter Lansdowne / Sunday Telegram

"Robertson forces runs of super-human length, power and density from his horn, yet his tone is amazingly clear and crisp. He uses a range of half-valves, split tones, and mutes to introduce a breadth of tonal colorations to his performance." Wire Magazine

"Robertson's composing and arranging is as ingeniously unpredictable as his sputtering, vocalizing trumpet". Pulse

"Power chops, sneaky lyricism and dexterity with mutes." Downbeat Magazine

"Robertson has always been a virtuoso of plunger and mutes -no anemic Bubber Miley imitations here...the full range of brass sound with startling elasticity". Windplayer Magazine

"One of the most talented and inquisitive trumpeters of the day." Bob Blumenthal /The Boston Globe

opisy: GAZ-ETA
Pierwsza od dłuższego czasu płyta z udziałem braci Oleś, która naprawdę cieszy. Trio znakomitego trębacza Herba Robertsona (z fenomenalnym udziałem Franka Gratkowskiego, chyba najbardziej niedocenionego saksofonisty i klarnecisty sceny europejskiej!) i nasi bohaterowie, jako sekcja dodana na potrzeby jednego koncertu w Alchemii. Ciekawe zderzenie trzech muzyków nastawionych w tej konfiguracji na wolną improwizację i ewidentnie jazzowej sekcji. Gdy bracia tworzą jedynie sonorystyczną przestrzeń dla improwizacji tria, jest nad wyraz smakowicie, gdy brną w kierunku bardziej oczywistego jazzowego frazowania, muzyka staje się bardziej przewidywalna. Ale i tak – absolutny top tego roku i chyba solówka roku – posłuchajcie Gratkowskiego na alcie, bodaj w piątym numerze.
autor: Andrzej Nowak