3. Jacob Garchik, ‘Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time’
Ten years after debuting his guitar-centric quintet, Ye Olde, the trombonist Jacob Garchik brought it back for a sequel that turns its three wild-card six-stringers (Jonathan Goldberger, Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook) loose in an elaborate jazz-prog fantasy. Unapologetically geeky, the results are also compositionally stunning, with moments of crystalline beauty offsetting frequent explosive peaks.
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