Aldcroft, Ken & Scott Thomson / Red & Blue
Album: Red & Blue   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Aldcroft, Ken & Scott Thomson   Added:Jan 2016
Label:Trio Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-02-28 Pull Date: 2016-05-01 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Apr 17 Apr 3 Mar 27 Mar 13 Mar 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. May 01, 2016: K-Area
Red (1)
4. Mar 26, 2016: Music Casserole
Red (2)
2. Apr 15, 2016: Rebop
Red (2)
5. Mar 08, 2016: The Off-Beat Generation
Red (1)
3. Mar 31, 2016: All Passion No Technique
Red (1)
6. Mar 07, 2016: Everything A to Z week 33 (edit created for re-airing on June 8th, 2020)
Blue (2), Red (2)

Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2016-02-20
FREE JAZZ / AVANT-GARDE
Ken Aldcroft (guitar) and Scott Thomson (trombone) are both from the Toronto area. Thomson is a member of Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble. Here they team up for four very free improvisations. Trombone goes from its very bottom note to ultra-high register and produces weird sounds including voicing through the horn. Guitar is picked, hollow-body, sometimes with electronics. This is sometimes strange but worthwhile listening.

All instrumental. No FCC issues.

1 * Slow, meandering, but still pleasant. Almost traditional hollow-body jazz guitar sound. Wild trombone with plenty of glissando and very rapid tonguing. (4:14)
2 Very slow. Strange & eerie. Dominated by the guitar with scraping sounds, electronic effects & percussive techniques. Trombone grunts & groans toward the end. (6:16)
3 ** Mostly slow; faster toward end. A very simpatico collaboration: you can sense them listening and working carefully together. Both strummed chords and picked runs on guitar; trombone does a bit of everything. (20:18)
4 Very slow. Trombone out in front much of the way, using the whole range of the instrument, fluttering, groaning; guitar accompanying with “jazzy” chords. (13:58)

Track Listing
1. Red (1)   3. Red (2)
2. Blue (1)   4. Blue (2)