stereo hi-fi music: ProjeKct One - Jazz Cafe Nights. First Night (2007)

Just nine days before stepping onto the stage with Bill Bruford and Tony Levin, Trey Gunn and Robert Fripp had been recording ProjeKct Two’s Space Groove with Adrian Belew - a double album with Ade playing drums! It was an exciting time to be a Crimson fan given the liberating and exploratory nature of the ProjeKcts venture.
The four nights at the Jazz Café provided a great opportunity for UK fans and those from further abroad to see the second ProjeKct attempting to work its way out KC’s creative stalemate.
Perhaps the most different-sounding of the ProjeKcts on account of Bill’s acoustic drums presence and jazzy inclinations, it’s Bruford who often provides the shape of many of the improvisations. 1i2 charts a shifting line between rock and jazz made all the more porous thanks to Fripp’s use of an Hammond organ-like setting and the mournful tones of Levin’s bowed bass.
As many observers commented at the time, Gunn’s contributions are revelatory. Whilst the meaning of the “Bite Me Bagel Boy” message that ran across the display screen of his rig may have caused heads to be scratched, there was nothing enigmatic or obscure about Gunn’s playing on this or any other of the nights – check out the buzz-saw solo on 1i3.
Of course it doesn’t always work. Not everything that starts off leads to a satisfactory resolution and sometimes the choices made on the fly turn out to be the wrong ones. Yet for every moment that clunks and falls to the fall unloved and unwanted, there are many more to carry the listener aloft.

Tracks

Disc Number 1
1.	1 i 1	[PREVIEW]	3.58
2.	1 i 2	[PREVIEW]	9.11
3.	1 i 3	[PREVIEW]	8.53
4.	1 i 4	[PREVIEW]	10.44
5.	1 i 5	[PREVIEW]	6.03
6.	1 i 6	[PREVIEW]	8.04
Disc Number 2
1.	1 ii 1	[PREVIEW]	6.49
2.	1 ii 2	[PREVIEW]	9.01
3.	1 ii 3	[PREVIEW]	5.55
4.	1 ii 4	[PREVIEW]	4.54
5.	1 ii 5	[PREVIEW]	8.50
6.	1 ii 6	[PREVIEW]	8.05
7.	1 ii 7	[PREVIEW]	8.58

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Personnel
Bill Bruford - Drums and Percussion
Robert Fripp - Guitar
Trey Gunn - Touch Guitar
Tony Levin - Bass and Stick

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Press Clippings
Sunday Times Robert Fripp Tue., Apr 19, 2005
Written by Stewart Lee
’Since 1992 it has again been possible to discuss without whispering the music of 1969-1976," writes King Crimson’s Robert Fripp in the sleeve notes to the recently issued early-1970s live collection The Night Watch. "But I offer no apology for the transparently pratty music played by young dopes wearing satin." Who does he mean, exactly? After all, though the current Crimson look like a fashionable firm of New York lawyers, they once epitomised the Tolkienesque fashions of the post-hippie era. But Fripp, 50 now, and the perfect softly spoken Dorset gentleman, won’t name names. "I’m loath to be drawn into making comments about other musicians, but I don’t think I was really part of the progressive scene," he elaborates, "I was just playing music in that period."
King Crimson began recording and touring again in 1994, to the delight of a hard core of fans big enough to fill the Albert Hall, but can they ever escape the stigma of progressive rock, with its Mellotron-toting, Tory-voting, tax-evading practitioners and their Page Three wives? Remember now and wince at Yes’s Tales From Topographic Oceans, at Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and at Rick Wakeman’s King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table...on Ice. To add psychological credibility to the insane anti-hero of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis makes him a rabid fan of the Phil Collins-era Genesis, and the preface to Paul Stump’s recent and disarmingly frank history of Progressive Rock, The Music’s All That Matters, is defensively entitled Author "Not Mad" Shock... dgmlive.com

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