Jessica Mathaes - Suites & Sweets - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Edna Prochnik - Psalterion [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/01/2009

Featuring Amie Weiss, Erin Wight, John Popham, & Andrew Roitstein. Brooklyn-based string instrumentalist/composer Jessica Pavone is known for her sparse, melodic music inspired by folk music, improvisation and minimalism. Modeled after the legendary Leonard Cohen album Songs of Love and Hate, these eleven marvelous and lyrical songs for string quartet use hauntingly simple beauty to evoke the ghosts of things lost. Performed by the brilliant young members of the Toomai String Quintet, this is lovely and expressive instrumental music from this eloquent voice out of the downtown scene.

As the third in Max Jazz's popular piano series, This Side Up finds Ms. Williams paying tribute in the intimate piano trio setting. - All About Jazz