Harris Eisenstadt September Trio - The Destructive Element (2013)

Here is one more fundamental opus of the present day jazz creativity recorded in Portugal, the little, sunny country serving as the door to enter Europe and to get out in the direction of the New World. The second album of the trio founded by drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt with Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone) and Angelica Sanchez (piano) is a climb of several steps towards brilliancy. And part of the reason resides in the fact that Eisenstadt enables his phantoms (his personal references) to float, like writer Joseph Conrad in the title-track, “The Destructive Element”, composer Arnold Schoenberg in the two parts of “From Schoenberg”, and film director Akira Kurosawa in “Here Are the Samurai”