There is often the sense of imminent subversion here, sudden mutations that carry the music both forward and elsewhere. At times it suggests the superb lyric expression of memorable saxophone and string combinations like Charlie Parker and Strings or Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village or just Ornette Coleman and David Izenzon.
Stuart Broomer
Free Jazz Collective, August 26, 2020
There is a lot of complicated unpacking to do here, but much of The Sudden Bird of Waiting has an inexplicable warmth even in its overt abstraction. Like brennan and Moimême’s previous work, much of the interest is generated by the sextet giving alternate voices to their instruments. This is daring experimental music, spontaneous and cerebral.
Karl Ackerman
All About Jazz, July 16, 2020
This play of difference separating brennan’s saxophone from the strings and guitars gives the performance the feel of a multi-movement concerto for alto saxophone and chamber orchestra. Here as on his other recordings, brennan is a compelling soloist. His saxophone emerges as a well-defined, hard-edged line standing out against and weaving through the surrounding sound.
Daniel Barbiero
Avant Music News, July 1, 2020
Musical balances and (intentional) imbalances are between the alto sax on one side and the suit of cards of violin-viola-cello-contrabass on the other, with our attention permanently ping-ponging from side to side. And if listening to brennan’s alto is a pleasure, the extraordinary thing is the rapport that Mar, Rodrigues, Mira and Faustino manage to establish among themselves. One delight of a disc.