The great Ken Vandermark, saxapohonist and Improv maestro of the The Vandermark 5, joins pianist Havard Wiik and celebrated bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten for this marvelous Free Jazz outing. Bringing the skills from all three of their estimable catalog of quality albums and collaborations over the years to form a single cohesive statement. For reference, check the collab with Mats Gustafsson's mighty Free Jazz power trio The Thing on their recent Smalltown Superjazz album "Immediate Sound" on the diversity of playing offered by Vandermark.

The second release by Free Fall on the SMJZ imprint, "The Point Is A Line" finds the trio exploring inventive approaches rhythm-less tonality, harmonic convergence, and melodic structures shifting fluidly between the musical and the avant-garde. Wiik turns out to be a bit of a star player here, acting as a lynchpin for his two more established collaborators. While Vandermark's clarinets brilliantly wander off on flights of fancy, featuring some stunning solo playing and Flaten ploughs his own experimental furrow, Wiik can always be depended upon for grounding such excursions in his atmospheric, moody and cinematic piano work. A beautiful, idiosyncratic take on freeform jazz that's as compulsively listenable as it is challenging, "The Point Is A Line" is a standout in an existing catalog of powerful, dynamic and quality excursions in new jazz from Norway's Smalltown Superjazz label.