Susie Ibarra & Assif Tsahar - Home Cookin'

The first issue on the home label of Susie Ibarra and her husband, reed/woodwind boss Assif Tashar, two of downtown NY's finest, and most in demand, players. The set was recorded in three hours and features the pair playing everything from their standard instruments, like a trap kit and a tenor saxophone, to African thumb piano, tympani and bells, bass clarinets, violins, etc. the set opens with "Arrival/Salutations" for tenor and drums. It's along the lines of the Coltrane/Ali Interstellar Space recordings, but much more subtle, as Tashar is a true lyricist and Ibarra is much more interested in the subtleties of speed rather than in its more obvious function as power. Read More