Avenging Angel is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Craig Taborn

Craig Taborn

Craig Taborn is an American keyboardist and composer. Playing piano, organ, and Moog synthesizer, Taborn has worked mostly in jazz, although he also does dark ambient and techno music....

 recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Avenging Angel is not an intellectual exercise, it is a major contribution to the actual language of the piano as an improvisational instrument: its 13 pieces feel like a suite: seamless, economical, original, and visionary."
Slate jazz critic Colter Walls nominated the album as a new classic, writing, "Avenging Angel doesn’t just seem like an 'album of the year' candidate, but something destined to have one of those 'crown' icons next to its four-star rating in the 30th Penguin Guide to Jazz, however many years from now."

Track listing

All compositions by Craig Taborn

1. "The Broad Day King" - 6:16
2. "Glossolalia" - 2:44
3. "Diamond Turning Dream" - 4:17
4. "Avenging Angel" - 6:56
5. "This Voice Says So" - 9:43
6. "Neverland" - 4:28
7. "True Life Near" - 4:29
8. "Gift Horse/Over the Water" - 7:37
9. "A Difficult Thing Said Simply" - 4:35
10. "Spirit Hard Knock" - 4:37
11. "Neither-Nor" - 3:18
12. "Forgetful" - 7:58
13. "This Is How You Disappear" - 5:03
    • Recorded at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizera in Lugano, Switzerland in July 2010