Date: Apr 30th, 2012 · Tags: Jazz CD Reviews

Following up on her strong quartet album Convergence (Motema, 2011), pianist Lynne Arriale returns with a solo recording–a risky venture for any artist. In an ensemble setting, a musician has collaborators with whom to work and exchange ideas before the record button is punched, and more importantly, while the session is on the move. In ensemble play, a musician’s unformed ideas or sound can be made whole by the other musicians in the ensemble; this is a big reason why group improvisation is such a glorious thing in jazz, that the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts. Everyone brings something to the moment and it all fits together.

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Lynne Arriale: Solo