WOODCLOCK – GINA SCHWARZ UNIT FEAT. JIM BLACK (CD)

Gina Schwarz latest band project, Gina Schwarz Unit feat. Jim Black solidifies her reputation as a live-cell therapy for jazz. And not just because Woodclock refuses to be relegated to any stylistic cubbyhole and doesn’t give a damn about musical conventions. Woodclock is a textbook example of the harmonious fusion of apparent opposites — clever and free, soft and loud, contemplative and uninhibited, organic and inorganic. Gina Schwarz’s multifaceted playing melds with the unmistakable drumming of New Yorker Jim Black, resulting in an indivisible unity, which in turn lays the pulsing foundation for a band that goes about making music for the long haul, with inspiration, technically delicately, and with energy to spare — Woodclock grooves, rocks, and swings like the devil!