Alto saxophonist, bassist, and drummer Yves Charuest, John Edwards, and Mark Sanders (Quebec – United Kingdom) are seasoned veterans of improvised music. With them, you know your ears are in good hands and you won’t be bored, as they seem to have retained, despite their long careers, the same enthusiasm and energy they had in their early days.
What never fails to fascinate when attending concerts by musicians of this caliber is the sheer ingenuity and inventiveness they possess. At times, their compositional process seems to operate like an internal combustion engine, one new idea invariably followed by another, and then another, constantly drawing us into new vortices, new constructions. This is especially true since Edwards takes a mischievous delight in peppering the performance with ruptures and unexpected turns of all kinds, only to propel his bandmates onto a new path, only to immediately veer off in a completely different direction.
And it’s a jostling, a soaring, a wild ride, a tumble… relentless. These guys, when they make music together, they’re bursting with energy, and the pleasure they take in playing is contagious.
Photo Credit: Martin Morissette
