Title: Yes It Was!
Product review: This two-CD set, which sells for the price of one, answers that burning question, "What if Anton Webern had started a jazz trio?" Well, that's sort of what "Nothing ever was, anyway" sounds like, anyway. The musical texture is generally quite wispy, with Marilyn Crispell's piano often playing a single note at a time, supported with spare intensity by Gary Peacock's bass and the drums of Paul Motian. The music does not so much flow as probe, but move forward it does--slowly, probingly, inevitably along. This is not music that I can easily recommend to everyone, but to those with ears to hear (those who find the music of Webern and Berg bracing and stimulating from time to time) will find it bracing and stimulating.
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