Anchor Points

This is a very delicate project, for the compositions, but also for the fact that of the 8 tracks, 4 are played by piano, guitar and double bass trio. And also by the fact that five of the tracks go to ballad tempo or similar. And that's the track 8 "And So It Goes" (Billy Joel, arranged by Weber), the 4th "Old Folks" (Robison & Hill, arranged by Levine), the 5th "Two Sleepy People" (Carmichael and Loesser, arranged by Levine), the 6th "I'll Get By" (Ahlert & Turk, arranged by Levine) and the 2nd "Vivo Sonhando" (A.C. Jobim, arranged by Kranes). And it has me It looks like we could start with the 3rd track, Alex Levine's composition, the album's title track.

And that's an issue very nice where you can see that today we will do it without starting with a ballad, as I always do. And today the program will be more or less like this, already beginning with mid-tempo themes. And the topic will begin with an Intro marked by the Pianist chords. And here the composer and guitarist will be the protagonist, for the fact that he begins the theme with the melody and for its subsequent improvisation. But who will start them first will be the leader and pianist Russell Kranes, who will do it for us with delicate taste, pristine and pure fingering and excellence interpretive full of jazz language. Alex Levine on guitar will follow him at the same interpretive level with the characteristic sound of jazz guitar, clean sound and language full of tradition executed with brutal technique. The same one that will show bassist Sam Weber he also doing a magnificent improvisation, in a song where we will hear 6 musical sections, melody, solo of the pianist, solo by the guitarist, solo by the bass player, melody and an ending by way of Turn Around or similar based on the pianist's initial marking. Enjoy it.