The venerable jazz mag JAZZIZ just ranked The Giant Pin as one of their jazz albums of the year! Here's a choice quote from the praise-filled review:
Accompanied by Devin Hoff on bass and Scott Amendola on drums and electronics, Cline burns through a dizzying array of styles, sometimes within the same track: the cool Jim Hall-like intro "Blues, Too" to the smoldering, downcast "Something About David H." to "Fly Fly," which begins with a brisk bebop motif before segueing into a mad rush of streamlined free playing that nods to pre-Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and the late Sonny Sharrock before mutating into a jagged, cyclic noisy rocker, then back again.
What makes The Giant Pin such a cathartic listen is the intense focus and restraint the principals bring to the table (no drum solos!) as well as their contrasts of "noise" and muted understatement. Electric guitar-heads take note.
-Mark Keresman
You haven't bought The Giant Pin yet? You're a very naughty child...Santa ain't bringin' you nothin'.
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