Nefertiti (2023 Remaster)

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  1968

  James

  The album quietly overturns jazz conventions by having the rhythm section improvise while the horns repeat composed melodies. That inversion gives tracks like “Nefertiti” and “Fall” an uncanny feeling of constant motion beneath apparent stillness. Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock are especially important to the album’s atmosphere, bringing harmonic ambiguity and emotional subtlety to every passage. Tony Williams’ drumming sounds almost orchestral in how it reshapes the music moment to moment. Rather than chasing spectacle, the quintet pursues refinement and instability simultaneously. The album feels intensely alive because nothing settles completely into place.