Month: August 2018

Alex Lefaivre Quartet: YUL

Canadian bassist Alex Lefaivre creates a series of impressionistic landscapes with his pastel-toned team of Erik Hove/as, Nicolas Ferron/g and Mark Nelson/dr. Lefaivre’s pen is as subtle as his bass, creating reflective material for Hove’s fluffy alto to float like…

Duende Libre: Drift

The trio of Alex Chadsey/p-key, Farko Dosumov/b and Jeff Busch/dr-perc create rich Afro-Cuban pulses on this rich collection of material. The team has an elegant flow to their cadence, teaming with ethereal voiced Chava Mirel on the glistening “Zephyr” as…

Erik Applegate: Three’s A Crowd

Bassist and composer Erik Applegate creates a variety of trios on a mix and match system a collection of friends. Brian Horton/ts, Jim White/dr, Greg Gisbert/tp, Dana Landry/p, Steve Kovalcheck/g, Kenyon Brenner/ts, Julia Dollison/voc and Julian Carey/voc are cut and…