My review of Jane Getter Premonition's ON Tour, today at All About Jazz.

With the release of ON (Madfish/Snapper, 2015) - the debut album with her newly minted Premonition band - guitarist Jane Getter completed her move from the funk/fusion guitar workouts of her first two albums (1997's Jane and 2005's See Jane Run) towards a more progressive leaning which began with Three (Alternity, 2012). It's a move that the New York-based Getter has managed with considerable success - no doubt, to some extent, the result of her husband and only constant across all of her solo recordings, keyboardist Adam Holzman, and his now six-year relationship with British progressive rocker Steven Wilson. But you may be able to take the guitarist out of jazz but you can't take the jazz out of the guitarist - especially in the three-minute solo guitar "Diversion Intro," found on ON Tour, which documents the two different lineups Getter employed during 2015 and 2016 dates in the USA and Europe in support of ON.

If not having a consistent band might be perceived, by some, as a detriment, both still possess plenty of consistency through the participation, along with Holzman, of second guitarist Alex Skolnick. Skolnick may be best-known for his tenure in American thrash metal band Testament - and deemed, in a 2014 Guitar World magazine readers' poll, as not just one of the greatest guitarists of all time, but one of the fastest in the world - but he also began publicly dipping his toes into jazz waters with the surprising Transformation (Magnatude, 2004). His clear acumen in both arenas makes him a perfect second guitarist on ON Tour; Getter retains most of the solo space, but he's still afforded plenty of energized moments as well.

Still, the majority of ON Tour is a showcase for Getter and co-producer Holzman, though there is plenty of room afforded to drummer Chad Wackerman, a charter member of Premonition who plays on all but three of ON Tour's ten tracks - and who is featured almost exclusively on the aptly titled, two-minute mesh of Holzman's electronics and Wackernan's powerful kit work, "Opener." Wackerman is also given some solo space on the harmonically sophisticated but ultimately ear-crunching "Diversion" and closing "Somewhere Jam" - a studio blow recorded during the ON sessions in October, 2014 - which takes ON's funkified "Where Somewhere" as its foundation, with Wackerman taking ample space for a virtuosic, ostinato-driven solo near the end of its ten-minute run.

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