At the moment, I've been hooked on Portico Quartet's Isla (2009). It's a really interesting jazz album that incorporates a bit of post-minimalism into its music (which was what originally piqued my interest). It's also extremely catchy... Change of the Century by Ornette Coleman is also a recent listen... The bass lines are absolutely magnificent, and I feel that he really improved upon and polished up the ideas that were present in his previous album (The Shape of Jazz to Come).
What about you? I remembering seeing that you were looking into a Messenger's album recently. What was your impression of it?
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