Kait Dunton - Mountain Suite CD + Full Album Digital Download
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Los Angeles-based composer and pianist Kait Dunton delivers another stunning and surprising release with Mountain Suite, her second album of original music. What started as a few measures of music composed in the Canadian Rockies became a full suite of music brought to life by master interpreters Peter Erskine on drums, Bob Mintzer on tenor sax, John Daversa on trumpet and Darek Oles on bass.
The music on Mountain Suite is not what you would expect from a jazz record. Dunton intended it that way.“Kait Dunton must know what she's doing,” writes historian John Edwin Mason, “Because here she is -- amid of the clutter and noise of the internet age -- whispering.” As composer, arranger and producer of Mountain Suite, she brought her concept to the recording studio complete and ready to be framed by an all-star ensemble.
Using jazz as a springboard into creative realms of her own imagining, Dunton both refers to and defies idiomatic expectations of the genre. It swings, but it also slips into more subtle, shadowy places. “Befitting the title of the album, the music is airier, more serene and more nuanced,” writes S.Victor Aaron of Something Else! “If that made you think that this shares some similarities to an ECM recording, you wouldn’t be terribly far off, but there’s a classic Blue Note presence lurking, too.”
