{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = This Now! | type = live | artist = Steve Swell | cover = This_now_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 2003 | recorded = November 2, 2001 | venue = Roulette, New York City | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 61:22 | label = Cadence Jazz | producer = Steve Swell | chronology = Steve Swell | prev_title = Poets of the Now | prev_year = 2002 | next_title = Still in Movement | next_year = 2003 }} '''''This Now!''''' is an album by American jazz trombonist Steve Swell, which was recorded live in 2001 and released on Cadence Jazz. He leads the Unified Theory of Sound, a sextet with Jemeel Moondoc on alto sax, Matt Lavelle on trumpet, Cooper-Moore on piano, Wilber Morris on bass and Kevin Norton on drums.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> }} In his review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy states " Swell's writing impresses immeasurably, as he has an ear to the moment so that the backgrounds constantly change and ebb to the machinations of the soloists."<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Loewy|first=Steve|class=album|id=mw0000031729|title=Steve Swell – ''This Now!'': Review|accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref>
''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' notes that "Having Cooper-Moore in the group introduces the rarity of a piano into Swell's music and he plays in a neoclassic free-jazz style which actually works very well."<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|authorlink = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|orig-date = |edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0141034010|pages = 1372}}</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Steve Swell'' #"This Now" - 21:47 #"BA-I" - 16:51 #"Tryarhythmic" - 22:44
==Personnel== *Steve Swell - trombone *Jemeel Moondoc - alto sax *Matt Lavelle - trumpet *Cooper-Moore - piano *Wilber Morris - bass *Kevin Norton - drums
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Category:2003 live albums Category:Steve Swell live albums Category:Cadence Jazz Records live albums