Rufus Reid's "Terrestrial Dance" is the final record in our Second Season. We are humbled that Rufus has chosen Newvelle Records to release these stunning compositions. Featuring his long-working trio alongside the strings of the Sirius Quartet, this record carves out a space all its own. No one explains it better than Rufus–check out the video.
Terrestrial Dance
"The music that Rufus writes on this record offers no apologies. He does not dabble. When Rufus told me he wanted to write some music for trio plus string quartet, my principal concern was that we’d be looking at another “with strings” record, with the string quartet serving as a cursory sonic bedding for a couple of supremely accomplished improvisers to bounce around on. However, this is music whose structure is wedded to its intention and execution. Rufus is a capital C composer, and he digs deep here." --excerpted from the liner notes by Elan Mehler
John Patitucci Trio Featuring Yotam Silberstein and Rogerio Boccato
Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke Duo
Jon Cowherd Quartet featuring Steve Cardenas, Tony Scherr and Brian Blade
Chris Tordini Trio featuring Becca Stevens and Greg Ruggerio
Aruán Ortiz revisiting the music of the great Cuban classical composers
Rufus Reid Trio with Steve Allee and Duduka Da Fonseca and featuring the Sirius Quartet
All of our cover and interior photographs for Season Two come from the astonishing French Collective Tendance Floue. Our Recording Engineer on all six records is the incomparable multi-Grammy winning Marc Urselli.
Mastering engineer is the brilliant Alex Deturk . Jim Hoppin and Sarah Enid Hagey shot lovely video for us at these sessions. All video editing is by the award-winning Ben Chace. Jordan Kleinman shoots all our studio photos. Our web team is run by French genius Aymeric Auberger. Social Media management by Jessye Mehler. Newvelle is run by: Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau.
