A collaboration between pianist Art Lande and trumpeter Erik Jekabson, 2022's The Silver Fox showcases the aptly named Arterik Quartet's engaging brand of post-bop. The album is a live recording that captures the group's 2006 performance at Hillside Club in Berkeley, California. A New York native, Lande moved to the Bay Area in 1969 and spent many years in Europe, where he recorded for ECM with players like Jan Garbarek, Paul McCandless, Mark Isham, and others. Joining him here is his trio featuring bassist Peter Barshay and drummer Alan Hall. They are augmented by Jekabson, also a longtime Bay Area presence known for his own adventurous ensembles. Conceptually, the album is split evenly with Lande's compositions featured on the first set and Jekabson's on the second. Of Lande's compositions, both "El Don" and "In Utero" are finely nuanced pieces that make the most of Jekabson's skills, evoking the warm angularity of trumpeter Kenny Wheeler's work. Equally striking are Jekabson's spiraling "Erris Wheel" and his noirish ballad "Luciole." That said, the songs flow nicely together and there's not a huge difference between the two artists' compositional styles. This is harmonically sophisticated jazz, rife with motivic improvisation that straddles the line between the '80s hard bop of Wynton Marsalis and the more atmospheric ECM albums of the 1970s. ~ Matt Collar, Rovi

1		On The Move
2		El Don
3		The Silver Fox
4		In Utero
5		A Night On the Town
6		Erris Wheel
7		Hippodelphia
8		Luciole
9		I See Better With My Eyes Closed
10		Three Clowns

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