This is contemporary improvisation at its most melodic. Alan Darragh creates melodies on the fly that stick in your mind. This kind of improvisation is based on intuition and listening. It's all about the interplay between two fearless musicians.

11 MP3 Songs in this album (73:03) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Modern Creative Jazz, JAZZ: Modern Free Jazz



Details:
All eleven tracks on Jump Into the Night are original improvisations, recorded live. There's no overdubbing, mixing, editing or extra tracks added in post production. These songs are the result of the interplay between two very creative and fearless musicians. Alan writes, âIt is incredibly exhilarating to channel the combined energy of the piano and the drums into a melodic form on the fly. Since starting on this odyssey, I have found that the melodic conversation between the piano and drum is truly unlimited. Adam and I are two musicians improvising in perfect sync.â

Alan Darragh, a young poet, composer and jazz pianist, has been studying and playing piano for more than 16 years. A natural improviser with an instinctive relaxed feel, he early discovered that jazz was his métier. He began his formal studies with Dave Hildinger, âa brilliant arranger at home with both bebop and modern jazzâ as well as a pianist with a magical touch. A rigorous teacher, Mr. Hildinger left no jazz touchstone unturned.

After moving to Toronto in 2004, Alan continued his studies with Bernie Senensky, who helped develop his natural bent for jazz composition. To date Alan has more than 90 compositions, many with lyrics.

Adam David's bio - "Adam has kept the beat with such greats as Ray Charles, Vince Gill, Tommy Newson, Michelle Wright, Charles Brown, Shirley Eikhard, Oliver Jones, Tommy Hunter, and Morgan Davis. He's also an accomplished actor, with regular parts on such hit TV series as "Degrassi High" -- if you think you recognize Adam from somewhere, it's probably from TV. And he's been the Toronto District School Board's percussion specialist since 1979.

Despot Studio
With the exception of mind reader, which was recorded by Jim Morgan of Acrobat Studio in Pickering, Ont., the other three CDs are a DIY project. They are recorded out of Despot Studio, Alanâs home studio in Toronto. It took the slave wage production team endless tinkering to fix the acoustic problems, which are generated when a grand piano shares a room with a full drum kit and a spectrum of cymbals. It was a challenge not only to record the piano and drum, but also to design an acoustic environment where Alan and Adam could hear what each was doing without resorting to isolation booths or sacrificing dynamics. Because they continued to record throughout the process, there are noticeable variations in sound quality in some of the tracks. Rather than attempt to redo those tracks, it was decided to include them because they are the originals.