Pianist/composer Frank Carlberg continues his fecund meditations on contemporary American and European poetry with his new CD from Red Piano Records, “Uncivilized Ruminations,” featuring regular band-mates vocalist extraordinaire Christine Correa, saxophonists Chris Cheek and John O'Gallagher, bassist John Hebert and Michael Sarin on drums. The works Mr. Carlberg has chosen for this opus are characterized by a trenchant humor that is deftly mordant albeit never arch or outright sarcastic... a series of poetic asides, if you will, just this side of aphoristic, that highlight a range of fractal truths rising out of this particular juncture of time and “the great whatever it is out there.” In many of these poems the tongue may indeed be buried in the cheek somewhat but it sure ain't found no home sweet home there, not by a long shot. The tastes left in ones mouth, so to speak, behind these bittersweet reflections, are not so much “bad tast...