By skyforbes 
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpet player Nate Wooley have played together in different collaborations over a long period of partnership. Their musical partnership continues with the release of Polarity 4. It is released digitally and as a limited edition of 500 CDs on Burning Ambulance Music. The CDs are heavy-duty gatefold mini-LP sleeves printed on textured paper, with artwork by Burning Ambulance Music co-founder I.A. Freeman.
Polarity 4 finds the pair in an explorative mood as they find different directions and pathways to investigate musical possibilities between their individuality and shared musical imaginations. Their continuity with the root chord and relationship to key changes instigated is apparent throughout the album, and there is often a satisfying clash between the trumpet in a major key and the sax in a minor — or the other way around. Usually, this would produce noise with no musicality, but Wooley and Perelman know instinctively where to lace their notes — and somehow the improbable major breaks work.
Perelman has amassed a wide-ranging discography, with releases on numerous labels, including Enja, Clean Feed, Leo, Homestead, and Cadence, to name a few. This leaves him with ways still open to explore, yet here with Wooley, Polarity 4 proves this is not the case. The opener, ‘Polarity 1’, is…