(How’s that for a cool poetic metaphor, hey?) But any method you hear it, that is beautifully one of the attention-grabbing, difficult but gratifying jazz fusion records ever made. The trumpet solos ) are virtuosic and recapture some of the pleasure that Gillespie generated however don’t match his genius as an improviser. Interestingly, nevertheless, we get a bowed bass solo towards the top that sounds for all the world like Slam Stewart. Black Wing, Brown Wing, a solo viola piece performed by Watras, is a quite moody piece consistent with the opening movement of Kreutzer, although the composer states that she based it on her cycle Firefly Song. It is a musical tribute to those that have misplaced family members and endure from the pain of their loss. I’ve seldom heard a current jazz album that has pleased and intrigued me as a lot from start to finish as Other Worlds.

Electronic machinery enabled some composers to create works in which the standard role of the interpreter is abolished and to record, immediately on tape or right into a digital file, sounds that had been previously past human capacity to supply, if not to think about. In fact, the term …