Jeff Albert

offBeat review of BoX3 – prototype:

“Dan Oestreicher’s modular synthesizer and Justin Peake’s software environments lead to a fascination with texture, and there is a very cool interplay between the trombone and the not-found-in-nature sounds they create and process. The trio is definitely more sensitive to dynamics than many improvised music groups are, so nothing turns into a musical hailstorm, and that, too, is encouraging.”

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Gambit Weekly : CD Reviews : January 29, 2008:

Over the past few months, the close-knit experimental jazz scene in New Orleans has been evolving at breakneck speed, thanks in part to the trio behind this limited edition project ‘ only 200 copies were made. Trombonist Jeff Albert’s weekly curated Open Ears Music Series at the Blue Nile has served as an incubator for spontaneous live collaborations from local improvisers, and Prototype is something like a version of those live variations. As science-y sounding as the title, the album is sonically understated, yet complex. It plays like a collection of lost sounds naturally magnetizing to one another and then spinning off into the atmosphere. Muted synthesizers and computer-generated tones crackle and buzz gently, as the more organic-sounding scraps of horn swell and fall away. It’s a record that sounds as if it were made by intelligent musical magpies, weaving together a spare, asymmetrical tapestry of sound.

The Lucky 7s CD, Farragut, made the top of Grego Edwards’ 2007 Record Poll list in Cadence Magazine. Even though the CD came out in late 2006, it was reviewed in Cadence in 2007, so it qualified for the 2007 lists. It’s nice to still be on someone’s mind so many months later. We’re in pretty good company too, other people on Grego’s list include Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Kowald, and Steve Swell.