Claudia Quintet’s founder, John Hollenbeck, a fierce, focused, and highly innovative drummer who often seems a step ahead of jazz’s vanguard, returns with his second album from the ensemble George — named after George Floyd — Looking for Consonance. The electro-acoustic group features synth players and vocalists Sarah Rossy and Chiquita Magic, alongside the exceptional saxophonist and flutist Anna Webber.
Difficult to categorize, the music traverses a postmodern landscape shaped by elements of synth-pop, electronica, idiosyncratic rhythmic designs, and open improvisation. “Bounce” is a striking ride that lands somewhere between eerie prog-metal and hallucinatory rave textures. Synchronized vocal lines,…