JACK MOUSE GROUP, Intimate Adversary
Before emerging as a bandleader in his own right in recent years, exploring traditional compositional forms as well as free improvisations, veteran drummer Jack Mouse established himself as a sideman with literally hundreds of jazz greats. Along the way, he discovered a quote from Spanish cellist Palo Cassals that perfectly captured the complex relationship a musician has to his or her instrument: Intimate Adversary. An expansive, avant-garde tinged soulful jazz ballad of tha