Tom Varner, Swimming - 1h 13m 29s

Tracks & Durations

1. Swimming	10:24
2. Pantoum	6:11
3. Maybe Yes	12:08
4. Samuel Gets the Call	14:12
5. A Waltz	2:30
6. Mark at the Circus	1:04
7. A Dream	0:59
8. Mark Goes to Work	1:11
9. A Memory of One Nashville Gig	2:17
10. Mark Goes Minimalist	1:01
11. Another Cicrus	1:10
12. OmniTone Blues	4:38
13. Paul Goes to Rome	3:54
14. Strident	8:40
15. Chicago Interlude	3:02

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Review

You would be hard-pressed to find a musician more virtuosic than Tom Varner, in part because his instrument is a French horn, but also largely thanks to his path-cutting imagination. Varner's 1998 work, The Window Up Above, shows how wide his interests range, from country great George Jones to squirrelly, creative improvisation that squiggles and bursts. His Swimming ranks with Window and Martian Heartache as some of Varner's most accomplished, sprawling work. His extended, seven-part suite for violinist Mark Feldman is a stunning instrumental display, weaving Feldman's violin into a bustle of twining saxophones, trombone-fat French horn, and Tom Rainey's mix of sledgehammer solidity and windblown breeziness on percussion. Varner's solos are more slippery than most trombone ventures (this comparison comes from the frequent transcription of trombone parts for French horn and vice versa), favoring an aquatic motion that helps concretize the album's title. With saxophonists Steve Wilson and Tony Malaby, Varner is able to knit a sometimes furrowed, sometimes crazy, quilt that resonates powerfully with the post-bop, post-free camp. He's got an impeccable melodic sense, making songs that ring memorably long after they've departed. --Andrew Bartlett

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