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1. Jan. 2002 · Window Silver Bright is the second outing from Andy Laster’s Lessness band and, much like their acclaimed first release, it's a stellar example of chamber jazz that fluidly combines classical composition techniques with inspired improvisation. Bursting with ideas, it's thoughtful, provocative music that gracefully veers between ...
Andy Laster. Interpretations of Lessness. SGL 1515-2. CD $10. visit artist profile. download free track. “The ever-present architectural tinge is tempered by a vivid sense of humour…This is left-leaning music that eschews the predictability of similar expressions for a pithier, more keenly coherent sound.
Samuel Beckett’s “Lessness,” with its deceptively random language and succinct ebb tie wistfulness, was the inspiration for the newest band by Andy Laster, a saxophonist doubling on alto and baritone, who writes a sort of cleanly mapped, salon-style music for jazz improvisers. A recent CD of the quartet, “Interpretations of Lessness ...
Alto/baritone saxophonist Andy Laster’s music should not function as well as it does. After all, the compositionally minded Laster has provided his quintet, Lessness (named with a passage from Samuel Beckett in mind), with a matrix of constantly shifting, overlapping compositional styles and dense, polyphonic themes. Laster likes the odd ...
Andy Laster has recorded eight CDs of his compositions – the most recent is Riptide (Tzadik Records). His 1998 recording Interpretations of Lessness was chosen as one of Billboard Magazine's Top Ten Jazz Recordings of the Year. He has been awarded residencies at the Blue Mountain Center and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. He has ...
Window Silver Bright is the second outing from Andy Laster’s Lessness band and, much like their acclaimed first release, it's a stellar example of chamber jazz that fluidly combines classical composition techniques with inspired improvisation. Bursting with ideas, it's thoughtful, provocative music that gracefully veers between humor and sadness.
Window Silver Bright is the second outing from Andy Laster's Lessness band and, much like their acclaimed first release, it's a stellar example of chamber jazz that fluidly combines classical composition techniques with inspired improvisation.
