Philip Freeman, Downbeat Weighting, pianist Gabriel Zucker’s debut album, is inspired by Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, a 2013 novel set in the ’70s that shifts between the New York art world and the convulsive, revolutionary Italian political environment of the era. The album’s eight tracks are combined into three suites, each surging and receding, slamming and roaring before descending into a keening … Read More
REVIEW: Downbeat Reviews Gabriel Zucker’s “Weighting”
