Great assortment of feeling by All About Jazz

"The French group Le Trio de Clarinettes - Armand Angster (who recorded an album called Dolphy Suite with another clarinet trio plus string trio), Sylvain Kassap (more from the contemporary classical world) and Jean-Marc Foltz (called the heir to the legacy of another great French reedman, Michel Portal) - show that Brooklyn's The Clarinets or the Gebhard Ullmann's clarinet trios are not the only improvising bands working in this challenging format. All members contribute material with different players and instruments (ranging from petite to contrabass clarinet) given solo features. The pieces, 11 in total, are relatively brief, ranging from two to eight minutes and the movement between the composed and the spontaneous is amazingly seamless, effected with remarkable discipline. Also laudable is a great assortment of feeling; each track exists unto itself but also leads into what follows and away from what came before, becoming a suite after the fact." All About Jazz