Ivo Perelman Trio - Garden Of Jewels (2021)

There are few fire-breathing free music blasts here. Perelman's tenor playing is constantly musical as it shifts between sharp yelps and cries and shards of deep, blossoming melody. He sometimes seems to thread a jagged line between Albert Ayler and Earl Bostic. Shipp complements his playing with an array of creeping runs and crashing chords while Dickey decorates the edges of the sound with well-placed hits and clangs. The three strike up bristling conversations on "Tourmaline," where Perelman's tipsy melodic squeaks are answered by repeating piano phrases, and on "Amethyst," where his shrill tooting becomes entangled with chopping drum strokes and rattling keyboard runs.