L.A. Jenkins / Hasan Abdur-Razzaq / Adam Smith

L.A. Jenkins / Hasan Abdur-Razzaq / Adam Smith: Intrusion

by Mark Corroto
August 6, 2014

This outwardly simple and uncomplicated trio recording by L.A. Jenkins matches three improvisers with almost identical musical visions. The guitarist collaborates with saxophonist Hasan Abdur-Razzaq and drummer Adam Smith. Both partners are versed in the exploratory music of Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and Pharoah Sanders. And both are members of The Wizards, a quartet that mines the cosmic and free jazz landscapes of the 1960s and 70s. Jenkins, a student of Ornette Coleman's harmolodics, has developed a sound ...