Source: Bandcamp Daily.
The first thing one notices about Infinite Love, Infinite Tears—the latest album by jazz alto saxophonist/flutist/composer Alan Braufman—is that it’s rich with melody and harmony. More to the point: They are hummable, hook-filled melodies (the playful and aptly titled “Chasing a Melody”) and consonant, seductive harmonies (the intoxicating “Edge of Time”), and they’re predicated on hard-driving swing and other infectious grooves (the slapping funk of “Spirits”). It’s certainly not most people’s idea of a free jazz album. But then, Braufman reminds us, free jazz isn’t supposed to conform to anyone else’s idea of what it should sound like. That’s the whole point.
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