TERMINAL 4
When I'm Falling (Truckstop Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This album is so sedate it hurts my head. There's this thin undercurrent of almost-tension running underneath all of this trombone bleating and jazzy bass licks that kept me in suspense through the whole album, waiting for something to happen past the feeling of being in a Beatnik elevator, but the almost-tension never turned into actual tension, and the only thing that happened is that the album came to an end. This light jazz quartet--featuring Jeb Bishop on trombone, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Jason Roebke on bass, and Ben Vida on guitar--would fit in great as background music for some college town coffee shop, where people don't want the music to overpower their conversations, but they're just not arresting enough to exist as the focal point in my living room.

© 2004 - Holly Day