The Spindle Room Band

The Spin Quartet: In Circles

by Dan McClenaghan
October 21, 2014

2014 has been a stellar year for jazz quartets working without chording instruments--two horns, bass/drums, no piano, no guitar. Trumpeter Tom Harrell released the marvelous a very groove-based Trip (High Note Records); a somewhat old-timey sounding Riverside (Greenleaf Music), featuring trumpeter Dave Douglas; the smoldering and hypnotic The Lathe of Heaven (ECM Records) by the Mark Turner quartet. Add to the list The Spin Quartet's In Circles (Origin Records). Influenced, in a bold, even brash fashion ...