Tuesday, 29th of April 2014 – Ches Smith & These Arches, Tim Berne, Tony Malaby, Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith, Andrea Parkins
Tim Berne doesn't take side-man jobs too often, and if he does, he probably requires enough space for his own aesthetics. He did get that with Ches Smith & These Arches, so much as Ches Smith's compositions often sounded as if they were Berne's. However, we should not let ourselves be tricked by stardom - and if we must, then at least we should acknowledge that this group is an all-star band. But we don't have to. This group…