{"id":23173,"date":"2022-06-20T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23173"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:52:03","slug":"album-review-allan-holdsworth-jarasum-international-jazz-festival-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/album-review-allan-holdsworth-jarasum-international-jazz-festival-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Allan Holdsworth &#8212; Jarasum International Jazz Festival 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23174\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/allan_holdsworth_jarasum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/allan_holdsworth_jarasum.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/allan_holdsworth_jarasum-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/allan_holdsworth_jarasum-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\u201cIn the moment.\u201d That\u2019s one of the phrases bassist Jimmy Haslip employs in his brief liner note essay for this, the latest in the ongoing series of archival live Allan Holdsworth performance releases. This set documents a concert in Gapyeong-gun, South Korea. The show was the final stop on a two-week pan-Pacific tour that included dates in New York City, Boston and Japan as well. The Jarasum Festival was the last stop for the trio of Holdsworth, Haslip and (on drums) Gary Husband.<\/p>\n<p>The set list is as varied as fans would have come to expect from Holdsworth, with old favorites (\u201cWater on the Brain\u201d from 1983\u2019s <i>Road Games<\/i>, \u201cDevil Take the Hindmost\u201d from 1985\u2019s <i>Metal Fatigue<\/i>) and more recent compositions (the opening cut, \u201cTexas,\u201d which appeared on 2000\u2019s <em>The Sixteen Men of Tain<\/em>. The misleadingly-titled \u201cGas Lamp Blues\u201d \u2013 okay, the loping piece is as close to the blues as Holdsworth would get \u2013 first appeared on 2002\u2019s <i>All Night Wrong<\/i>, the guitarist&#8217;s first official live album (there have been many, many, many since then, of course, albeit with a different \u201crhythm\u201d section.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the work of Allan Holdsworth, the term rhythm section simply doesn\u2019t apply. No power trio chugging riffs for this endlessly exploratory and virtuosic instrumentalist; it\u2019s a trio of equals, with each musicians commanding his tools. The music is adventurous and just this side of improvisational (okay, maybe just that side of it) and even the drums solos are intriguing. The subtle and atmospheric \u201cAbove and Below\u201d showcases Holdsworth\u2019s brand of soundscaping. It was a cold night (as Holdsworth remarks to the audience after the opening number) and the trio was dealing with the deleterious effects of jet lag. But save for the guitarist&#8217;s comment, you\u2019d never know. They\u2019re molten metal prog jazz fusioneers here.<\/p>\n<p>The audio quality is absolutely top-notch \u2013 the set was recorded in high definition \u2013 and the video included on an accompanying DVD is swell also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the moment.\u201d That\u2019s one of the phrases bassist Jimmy Haslip employs in his brief liner note essay for this, the latest in the ongoing series of archival live Allan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32,40,42,49,56,65],"tags":[3134],"class_list":["post-23173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvd","category-fusion","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-prog","category-review","tag-allan-holdsworth","cat-25-id","cat-32-id","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-56-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23173\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}