Tim Berne's playing on
Ancestors is fluid, warm and conveys a relaxed levity. For this live recording
Berne enlarges his regular quartet (
Mack Goldsburg, tenor sax, soprano sax;
Ed Schuller, bass;
Paul Motian, percussion) to include
Herb Robertson (trumpet) and
Ray Anderson, perhaps the finest trombonist of the past five years. As usual, the tunes are all
Berne originals and display the sectional and harmonic structures that so much of his music seems to exhibit. ~ Bob Rusch, Cadence