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However far from familiar paths the American pianist Craig Taborn strays, he sounds surefootedly convinced of his route, and however private his music, it emits a vivid intensity. Daylight Ghosts – a superb quartet set with Chris Speed on reeds, Chris Lightcap on bass and the Bad Plus’s Dave King on drums – operates in Taborn’s favourite free-floating manner: changing fragments of melody rather than dominant themes come and go, steadily transforming the moods. The Shining One mixes quick, boppish exchanges of motifs with twisting, written-unison lines. New Glory is exhilarating free-jazz with a Chick Corea-like Latin vamp in it, and there are deep clarinet and bass interludes, brief bursts of rock-piano riffing and subtle minglings of electronic loops and long-tone sax sounds on Phantom Ratio. Only players with deep jazz insights and wide musical references could have made this fine album.



1. The Shining One
2. Abandoned Reminder
3. Daylight Ghosts
4. New Glory
5. The Great Silence
6. Ancient
7. Jamaican Farewell
8. Subtle Living Equations