Victor Feldman - An Englishman Abroad: The First Us Albums 1957-61 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Floating Points announces forthcoming album, 'Cascade' via Ninja Tune. 'Cascade' is available on black vinyl, limited edition universal sparkle indie exclusive vinyl, and CD. 'Cascade' pushes Floating Points' sound forward into new places. The eight songs here are allowed to smoulder and spark for up to eight minutes at a time, allowing for more expansive exploration of sounds and grooves than ever before. Almost a decade on since 'Elaenia', his revered debut album, the composer has discovered new ways to thread his experiments outside of club music seamlessly into his music designed for the dancefloor.

On his sophomore leader CD and Criss Cross debut, pianist Victor Gould joined throughout by bassist Dezron Douglas and drummer Eric McPherson, with guest appearances by Tim Warfield on soprano saxophone, Godwin Louis on alto saxophone, and percussionist Khalil Kwame Bell presents a diverse, well-paced program comprised of originals and a cohort off-the-beaten-track numbers from the Great Jazz Songbook. Gould has spent consequential time apprenticing in groups led by such modern masters as Donald Harrison, Ralph Peterson, Terri Lyne Carrington and Wallace Roney, and you can hear it in his fresh, harmonically erudite approach to the repertoire, which he addresses and inhabits on it's own terms of engagement while retaining an entirely 21st century perspective.

Philips / Norman / Price - An Englishman Abroad [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/01/2011