Bert Seager's Heart Of Hearing at Lilypad

Bert Seager’s Heart of Hearing is a-jazz quartet made up of piano, tenor-saxophone, upright-bass, and drums whose aim is to bring listeners into the heart of improvised jazz. On October 5 they will be joined by award winning poet Alison Luterman. Combined in new ways with dance rhythms from many cultures, the music makes one wonder what Schubert would have sounded like had he lived in Peru and played odd meters, or if Ravel had lived in Ghana and had been able to improvise over chord changes. The joyful expression of this musical intimacy, the shimmering transparency of the sound, and the sense that these musicians are as much involved in listening as in playing makes for compelling and memorable performances.  ...

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Bert Seager’s Heart of Hearing is a-jazz quartet made up of piano, tenor-saxophone, upright-bass, and drums whose aim is to bring listeners into the heart of improvised jazz. On October 5 they will be joined by award winning poet Alison Luterman. Combined in new ways with dance rhythms from many cultures, the music makes one wonder what Schubert would have sounded like had he lived in Peru and played odd meters, or if Ravel had lived in Ghana and had been able to improvise over chord changes. The joyful expression of this musical intimacy, the shimmering transparency of the sound, and the sense that these musicians are as much involved in listening as in playing makes for compelling and memorable performances.  

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