A Modicum Of Blues finds tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman in dialogue with some of today’s most inventive improvisers: Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibes), Mark Helias (bass), and Tom Rainey (drums).

Rather than a direct dive into blues forms, the album refracts blues gestures through free improvisation—shaped by holler-and-response patterns, playful interludes, and lyrical exchanges.

Perelman reins in his characteristic ferocity, creating space for delicate textures, room for solos, and layered group conversations. The result is a set of five expansive pieces balancing sensitivity, energy, and joy in spontaneous creation.

1. A Modicum Of Blues - Part 1 [13:38]
2. A Modicum Of Blues - Part 2 [4:57]
3. A Modicum Of Blues - Part 3 [10:26]
4. A Modicum Of Blues - Part 4 [7:32]
5. A Modicum Of Blues - Part 5 [10:01]

With Perelman at the helm, meaning he ensures each and every track tells its own story, paints its own vicarious soundscape, the group open their highly impassioned new recording on the jauntily adventurous Part 1 and then we get brought forth the melodious free-range joy of Part 2, the lonesome yearn, at first, latterly a scattered array of playfully mischievous beats within Part 3, the set rounding out on the late night, sculky dark city streets of Part 4, coming to a close on a quite beautiful interaction of musicians that come to the fore on Part 5.

Musicians:
Ivo Perelman, sax
Nate Wooley, trumpet
Mark Helias, bass
Tom Rainey, drums

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