Inside Out
Joan Wildman Trio
Joan Wildman: piano, piano strings, synthesizer
Hans Sturm: double bass
Dane Richeson: drums, percussion
with special guest Bob Stright on vibes
"Joan Wildman's synthesizer playing is among the most thoughtful I'v [+]Inside Out
Joan Wildman Trio
Joan Wildman: piano, piano strings, synthesizer
Hans Sturm: double bass
Dane Richeson: drums, percussion
with special guest Bob Stright on vibes
"Joan Wildman's synthesizer playing is among the most thoughtful I've ever encountered. Yet there's an underlying assertiveness and enough elements of surprise to demand repeated listenings. I hear influences from Paul Bley, Herbie Hancock's "Crossings" Septet, mid-1970's Miles Davis and early Weather Report.
If this publication had a rating system, I'd give this recording five stars."
Steve Goldstein, Arts Midwest Jazz Letter
"The Many Sides of Joan"
"Joan Wildman's personal world of music expands ever outward with the release 'Inside Out' by pulling the listener in even as she's pushing the music out. That's because her exploratory nature possesses a curious allure, like the snake charmer who takes the creature where she wants it to go. Partly it's the near perfect balance of program between her acoustic piano and her magical synthesizer. Partly it's her uncanny ways of casting out new musical forms. And there's the devilish collusion of bassist Hans Sturm and percussionist Dane Richeson.
'Whdja? offers a deceptively simple, enchanting sound and form. Her synthesizer sounds less like high technology then exotic instruments and voices, singing a plaintive theme in a modal like groove that gains complexity in the improvisers' development.
Built from a deep synthesizer vocabulary, "Chant for Synthesizer and Ball builds a quietly hypnotic weave from a tape-loop recording of a spoken-voice fragment, with subtle shifts of time throughout.
Wildman evokes a few stylistic references in her pieces; that of Keith Jarrett in the modernized boogie-woogie of 'Attitude Control', pensive in its energy."
Brian Lynch, The Capital Times
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Many of the compositions in this recording focus on unusual designs of improvisation and form. Easy Time and 3X19 are the least different, only the length of the forms are nontraditional, but Attitude Control requires alteration of performance styles and Whdja? requires alteration of structure. The improviser can also create new musical shapes in Prairie Music but the outer edges of the structure are defined: each soloist is
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