BENJAMÍN VERGARA, KEEFE JACKSON, JIM BAKER, PHIL SUDDERBERG - The Hallowed Plant

"The Hallowed Plant brings together Chilean trumpeter Benjamín Vergara, reedist Keefe Jackson, pianist/synth player Jim Baker, and drummer Phil Sudderberg in a fiercely intuitive Chicago-based quartet. The ensemble can shift from jagged, multi-directional bursts of energy—horn lines splintering against piano clusters and elastic drumming—to passages of unexpected clarity, where melodic fragments and tonal centers briefly cohere before dissolving again into abstraction."