Through the Mirror is a trio recording independently produced by saxophonist/bass clarinetist Ike Levin, pianist Joel Futterman, and drummer Alvin Fielder, recorded in California October 6, 2013. Order this CD, by clicking on the cover image or HERE
Interinfinity is an independent artist's release produced by Joel and master drummer Alvin Fielder, diverse improvised duos from June 26, 2013. Order this CD, by clicking on the cover image or HERE
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We experience a cross-section, the fruits of an evening’s improvised collaboration before an enthusiastic Oregon audience, but the music’s implications are as vast as its timbral and dynamic ranges. The waves of joyful spontaneity crest over constant recurrence, eclipsing and erasing conventionalities of moment-to-moment narrative in favor of points and fields along a circuitously spiraling path. . . Those in search of microcosmic precision will find it in abundance, each phrase inherently its own pulse, and those wishing narrative on a larger canvas need only let the music unfold and evolve along its miraculous paths of adventure and return.
Marc Medwin
Futterman and Avreeayl Ra’s music invites open acceptance of change and recurrence, each supposedly polar opposite its own act of becoming, each a varied moment of transformation, a gift of tone and color to the equally accepting listener.
. . . as the music ebbs and flows, finding brief but poignant respite atop angular cliffs and plunging through the invigorating waters of creativity in glorious flux, the raw joy of consummate masters caught in the sacred act of transformation is revealed. Marc Medwin
The photographs from the Guelph performance are by Susan O'Connor/jazzword.com
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