Urka

This new recording is a confirmation of the virtues evident on the quartet's first record, "Eyes And Stripes": balanced compositions, well thought out ordering of songs, calm control in the exposition of theme and in the solos, and a sense of effortlesness in navigating sophisticated harmonic contours.  This is a group that knows how to take its time with a song, and how to tune the calibrations of improvisation to the larger concern of form and structure.  It is also knows how to turn up the flame, and burn... (from the CD's liner notes by Warren Blumberg)