Category

Watch the video of is Mike's reimagining of Igor Stravinsky's famous piece, "Excerpts From The Firebird."

Check out the video for the first single, "Treeing."

Richard Kamins calls the album, “Truly a delightful listening experience."

Nate Chinen says, "Hyperacute technique meets folkloric timbre in the music of Emi Makabe."

"Excerpts From The Firebird" features Randy Ingram on piano, Quinsin Nackoff on saxophone, Mike on euphonium, and Jennifer Wharton on tuba.

Watch the video for the piece "BlaCk--Bad CoMPany--BiRd" recorded in Rudy's living room last month.

Reviewer Carlo Wolff calls the album, "a joy to hear."

They call Rudy's solo drum album, "a highly personal statement."

The album is a set of eleven of Emi's original compositions, which blend pop and Japanese folk melodies with cross-cultural instrumentation and jazz improvisation.

The album features a seven part suite of music based on the poetry of famed Cuban writer José Martí set for two wonderful vocalists, Sofia Rei and Camila Meza, along with a stellar band of New York improvisers who bring Valera's vision to life.

"Royston reveals an extraordinary ability to evocatively transpose jazz idioms to the solo drum kit."

The track is Claude Debussy's "La fille aud cheveux de lin," featuring Mike Fahie on trombone.