Arriving after Vision Is the Identity (2024) and Asp Nimbus (2021), REX is the third album cellist Christopher Hoffman‘s recorded for the avant-jazz label Out of Your Head Records and formally speaking his debut solo album. However, REX is hardly a jazz album in the traditional sense, as its methodically built-up pieces have as much to do with folk, rock, and ambient as they do jazz. The story behind the album’s fascinating. When the Brooklyn-ensconced Hoffman and his family itched for a change of scenery in 2023, a 116-acre property north of the city presented itself that turned out to be the former home to Rex Brasher (1869–1960), a celebrated self-taught painter who created more than 1200 watercolours of North American birds. How dedicated…

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