Terminal 4

Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm's name turns up in connection with almost every conceivable style of music. From the jazz-metal of the Flying Luttenbachers to the chamber music of the Lofty Pillars to the avant-pop of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Perhaps such diversity explains the difficulty in pinning down his own compositions, played here in a quartet including fellow over-achievers Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke and Ben Vida. Thelonius Monk, ’60s & ’70s French film scores, Arthur Lyman exotica meld together to become a music both soothing and charged with energy, though nothing is hurried here. Aside from "this must be the end," a side-trip into slightly edgier territory featuring Jeb Bishop's seemingly underwater trombone, Terminal 4's music would suit any cocktail party or gallery opening, provided it was excruciatingly hip of course.