Tawanda - Smile - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

No Fixed Point In Space, the third full-length album by Jack Cooper's Modern Nature, takes the palette of sound and themes that were honed on 2021's Island Of Noise and launches them into an expansive world of openness and vivid technicolour. It's a music that hasn't been heard before; as melodic as anything Cooper has produced but framed by rhythms and instrumentation that reflect the chaos, unpredictability and colour of the natural world. InchWith this record,Inch Cooper explains, InchI wanted the music to reflect nature beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, process and chance. I wanted the music and the words to feel like roots, branches, mycelium, the intricacies of a dawn chorus, neurons firing, the unknown. The way you see or hear music in your head is abstract and magic... often more beautiful than what eventually appears on tape. When you sit down with an instrument and begin translating an idea, it quickly conforms. I've tried to develop this music without thinking in terms of set rhythms, time signatures, folk or pop structures, syntax; the devices you associate with the music world which I come from. I wanted to make music that was abstract, free and honest, whilst still being predominantly tonal and recognisably song based. It feels like time to make something that no one has heard before.Inch

Jacques Lesure, one of the premier jazz guitarists on the west coast, releases his debut CD InchWhen She SmilesInch on WJ3 Records. This recording showcases his interpretations of jazz classics such as Horace Silver's InchGregory Is HereInch, Miles Davis' InchBlue and GreenInch and Sonny Rollins' InchSonnymoon for Two,Inch and Lesure's own composition,InchWhen She Smiles.Inch Lesure is joined on this CD by Eric Reed (piano), Willie Jones III (drums) and Mike Gurrola (bass). Lesure has shared the stage with jazz icons including Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine and Les McCann.

Few musicians face the challenges of contemporary music as thoroughly as multi-reedist/composer Rich Corpolongo. Drawing on such disparate influences as Charlie Parker and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the music on Smiles maps a vast stylistic terrain. (Previously deleted 7/1/07. Original date 5/25/96)