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QuintEssential

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The music from the San Francisco Bay Area's own Terrence Brewer is back, along with the passion, the intensity, and the professionalism, all of which never waver! If you like jazz quintets, hence the Quint in the title, you're going to love QuintEssential!

Quiet and meditative in the right passages and bouncy and sassy in those places where it's called for (Brewer should know, as he, once again, composed all of the disc's tracks), this music and all of the musicians (Terrence Brewer on guitar; Kasey Knudsen on saxophone; Ben Stolorow on piano/rhodes; Ravi Abcarian on acoustic bass; and Micah McClain on drums) hit, score, and play the requisite high and low passages all with an unerring precision and well-earned confidence of ability, talent, and skill.

They say that there is no rest for the wicked. Well, let's hope that there is no rest to the continued success, accomplishments, and recorded performances of Terrence Brewer, a truly stellar jazz artist!

Tight band, tight sound. Don't miss this music if you're into solid, no nonsense, straight ahead jazz. Highly recommended.