A Night Walking Through Mirrors

A Night Walking Through Mirrors is a live album by the Chicago/London Underground, pairing two Americans, trumpeter Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor, with two British musicians, pianist Alexander Hawkins and bassist John Edwards.

When asked about his criteria for inviting other musicians to participate in such collaborations, Mazurek stated that he seeks "people who are completely open to anything, no matter how outlandish or crazy the idea is.

"[5] Writing for Jazzwise, Daniel Spicer commented: "As you'd expect, the two British serial-collaborators fit right in... helping to create a dense, episodic experience that moves through moments of tense abstraction and brooding darkness to fierce, roiling tumult.

"[11] In an article for Stereogum, Phil Freeman wrote: "The music is loud — Edwards attacks his bass like no one I've ever heard, and Mazurek feeds his cornet through an array of pedals, turning notes into smears and echoing sputters, as Hawkins and Taylor work in a free jazz mode, battering the keys and the skins without mercy.

"[9] Glenn Astarita remarked: "these prominent improvisers and progressive jazz laureates execute a surfeit of soul-jarring motifs, spiced with off-center EFX articulations and fractured segments amid a horde of protracted developments and synergistic improv... the musicians operate within multifarious frameworks much to the delight of the revved-up audience.