Art Lande, David Samuels, Paul McCandless - Skylight (1981)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 197 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 96 MB | Covers - 12 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 1208)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 197 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 96 MB | Covers - 12 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 1208)
As one of the finest mallet players of his generation, Dave Samuels has treaded a wide and multifarious path. From Double Image (his gorgeous project with David Friedman) to the exciting territories of his work with the Caribbean Jazz Project (some of the best Latin jazz around), not to mention his fruitful years with Spyro Gyra, Samuels brings a signature delicacy to his playing that is comforting and domestic. His first two intersections with ECM, Dawn and Gallery, are both sadly out of print but make a flowing trilogy of sorts with 1981’s Skylight, which thankfully is still available and marks his last appearance on the label. Joined by one-and-onlys Art Lande and Paul McCandless, Samuels shows us his compositional brilliance in the airy title cut. Not to be outdone, Lande and McCandless offer two tunes apiece. Lande’s territories are more contradictory in their energies, at once twilit and dripping with morning dew, and undeniably engaging…