Black Land page 55 (art only)

My second studio album, Gestures, is a collection of modern straight-ahead jazz tunes. The idea was to write some simple tunes based on visual art concepts I could subsequently use as “rails” for improvisation.

My first album of original music was Revisionist History. I would describe it and my follow up, Gestures, as my “academic period”, where I was working to prove I could write and produce material worthy of academic approval. That isn’t …