Pop Matters: 12 Brilliant Recent Jazz Albums That Shouldn't Be Missed
“Bassist Chris Lightcap has been on so many of the coolest records of the last 20 years, playing with people like James Carney, Regina Carter, Craig Taborn, Matt Wilson, Rob Brown, Joe Morris, and many more…The sound is thick and layered, sometimes reminiscent of the Zappa-styled rock-jazz of The Grand Wazoo…Other times the sound is like the genre-less open spaces of guitarist Bill Frisell…Lightcap himself is at the center of the mix, holding it together, but it’s a joy to hear him featured as a soloist on the collection’s quietest track, “Nothing If Not”, where he is given the foreground in a burbling collective improvisation that comes together in a bucolic theme.”
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Jazztimes Feature - Chris Lightcap: Two Become One
“What’s most fascinating about SuperBigmouth is how the amalgamation—even while exhibiting the wide-screen melodies and harmonies, thrilling improvisations, and unexpected twists that have characterized Lightcap’s previous work as a leader—sounds like neither of the two separate entities.”
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SuperBigmouth featured in NY Times' Playlist
“Two guitars, two drum kits, two tenor saxophones, bass, keyboards and a whole lot of reverb. Sounds like a ton, no? It helps that Lightcap writes for this new band (a smashup of his two previous concerns, Superette and Bigmouth) with a mix of blissed-out abandon and serious precision: Each instrument’s role is more closely considered than SuperBigmouth’s blistering sound might have you think. On “Through Birds, Through Fire,” your focus is drawn first to the woven ringlets of sax and guitar that become a buzzing electron cloud. But a lot of the action is really happening closer to the nucleus, in Lightcap’s bold-toned, wide-open bass playing, and the drummers’ throttling nine-beat rhythm.”
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