Cheek/ Schenker - Times of Innocence

For his new album Schenker has elected the form of the quintet, that of many classic hard bop and modern jazz recordings. He says he likes to think of duos - Miles Davis/John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy/Booker Little and Dexter Gordon/Woody Shaw - although he doesn't see himself as the executor of an estate. Schenker's music is distinguished by it's openness to the new, by it's formal ambition, and by a broad palette of sounds and moods. This is nowhere more sensuously evident than on his new album, "Times of Innocence", on which he performs with the American tenor and soprano saxophonist Chris Cheek as well as with his Swiss colleagues Stefan Aeby on the piano, Dominique Girod on bass and Elmar Frey on drums.