DESCRIPTION:
Travis Reuter Quintet:
Travis Reuter, Guitar; Jeremy Viner, Tenor Saxophone; Bobby Avey, Fender Rhodes; Chris Tordini, Bass; Jason Nazary, Drums
from Rotational Templates
http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/travis-reuter-rotational-templates
Works by Travis Reuter

Producer: Travis Reuter
Recorded on July 24, 2010 at Mercy Sound in NYC
Engineered by Jon Notar
Mixed and Mastered by Liberty Ellman
Package Design: Maxine Nienow

Thoughts on the recording:

"The shared affinity between experimental jazz and avant garde classical music is not new. Improvisers such as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and Steve Coleman have drawn inspiration from the classical avant-garde for decades, contextualizing ideas developed in notated music within improvised forms. Composers such as Christian Wolff, Bruno Maderna, and John Cage have been among the scores of figures who have explored ways to use notation to facilitate various flavors of improvisation. But something is amiss in experimental corners of jazz and new music that strikes me as the next step of integration of these two trajectories that had previously only run parallel to one another. Travis Reuter's Rotational Templates is part of this new movement, and is a bracing harbinger of where this direction might take us."

- Dan Lippel, February 2011