Tobias Meinhart: The Painter

Tobias Meinhart uses his voice, flute, tenor and soprano saxes and paint brushes for his musical canvas, bringing to his palate Eden Ladin/p-key-arp, Matt Penman/b and O bed Calvaire/dr and dabbling with Charles Altura/g and Ingrid Jensen/tp for a couple of tunes each. His tenor is rich and palpable on the post bopper with Ladin on piano for “Movement” and his soprano glides with Altura on “Dreamers”. The team gets into a soulful groove with Ladin on the keys on “Neowise” with Dalvaire digging a deep rivulet, while the team goes modal with Meinhart of flute on the dramatic “The Last Dance”. Jensen’s horn gets elegiac with Penman on “Oak Tree” and dark on “Bird Song”. Most intriguing of all is Meinhart’s breathy tenor conversing with Ladin on a bel canto “Estate”, revealing many colors of the rainbow. A prism of sounds.

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