Tim Berne / Gregg Belisle-Chi
Mars
2022 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 374
https://www.intaktrec.ch/374.htm
https://timberneintakt./album/mars-2

* Tim Berne        : alto saxophone
* Gregg Belisle-Chi: guitar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berne
https://www.greggbelislechi.com/

Recorded by Chris Bittner at Applehead Studio
in Woodstock, New York, USA, on May 15, 2021.

Reviews
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By John Fordham
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/tim-berne-gregg-belisle-chi-mars

[...]

The acoustic guitar's necessary fragility, and the intimacy of this
partnership, casts Berne's music in a different - and in some ways warmer -
light, and though Belisle-Chi distils the compositions to their essentials,
these tracks nonetheless radiate immense vividness. The guitar chimes quietly
behind the softly buzzy twists and turns of the alto sax on 'Gastrophobia',
pillows its soulful dreaminess on 'Middle Seat Blues', shepherds the busy
melodic lines of 'Dark Shadows', skips brightly around the Ornettish 'Giant
Squids'. Without cranking up the percussiveness, Belisle-Chi imparts a
mysterious momentum to these serpentine tunes - his folk-bluesy relentlessness
and scatterings of lateral melody drive 'Big Belly' long before Berne's
free-jazzy alto floats into the picture, while the pair are animatedly joined
at the hip on the episodic 'Palm Sweat'. By paring Tim Berne's music to the
bone, Gregg Belisle-Chi may just have helped his hero to unveil fascinating new
stories within it.

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Intakt Records
https://www.intaktrec.ch/rev374.htm

By Gary Chapin
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2022/03/tim-berne-gregg-belisle-chi-and-gordon.html

By Jason Bivins
https://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD78/PoD78MoreMoments2.html

By Dan McClenaghan
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/mars-tim-berne-gregg-belisle-intakt-records

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/tim-berne-gregg-belisle-chi-mars-album-review

By S. Victor Aaron
https://somethingelsereviews.com/2022/01/16/tim-berne-gregg-belisle-chi-mars-2021/

By Ken Waxman
https://www.jazzword.com/one-review/?id=131043

Jan van Leersum (be)
https://rootstime.be/CD REVIEUW/2022/JAN1/CD122.html

Jan Granlie (dk)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/tim-berne-gregg-belisle-chi/

Da Mario Grella (it)
https://offtopicmagazine.net/2022/01/22/tim-berne-gregg-belisle-chi-mars/

Par Nicolas Dourlhès (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Tim-Berne-dans-les-cordes.html

Par Xavier Prévost (fr)
https://lesdnj.over-/2022/01/tim-berne/gregg-belisle-tchi-mars.html