Three Minutes to Four

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Music has taken saxophonist and composer Phil Scarff and pianist Lewis Porter to many places. They have performed and recorded around the world, as have their colleagues bassist John Funkhouser and drummer Bertram Lehmann. In return, and as an immense favor to all of those who hear it, they've created music that takes listeners to almost as many unique destinations. The Lew Porter-Phil Scarff Group's new 'Three Minutes to Four' is contemporary, east-meets-west jazz, where Indian raga merges with western classical, where Ghanaian traditional fuses with improvisational, and where organic meets studied. 'Three Minutes to Four' is where stunning performance creates pure jazz excitement. The four musicians here have all been to the crossroads of world music and jazz, which is why this project really sings. Scarff regularly tours India and performs Indian classical concerts at major venues there. Porter, a prolific author and Ph.D., devised the only master's program in Jazz History and has toured across the US and Europe with names like Liebman, Bartz and Ribot. Both Funkhouser and Lehmann are Berklee profs with a dizzying array of worldwide playing. 'Three Minutes to Four' is at once deeply felt and eminently accessible, a glorious celebration of musical multiculturalism filtered through a prism of real jazz.

REVIEW
''Lewis Porter-Phil Scarff Group…Loaded with the smoking side of the east meets west… Real pros kicking it out.'' [Chris Spector, Midwest Record]
''Lewis Porter-Phil Scarff Group… Work at the highest level…With a soul.'' [Leonid Auskern. Jazz Quad]
''Absolutely beautiful.'' [KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA]
UK Vibe named ''Journey'' from Porter-Scarff Group's CD, Three Minutes to Four, one of the top 20 modern jazz compositions of 2017.
''Lewis Porter… he's got a penchant for roiling, arpeggiated impasto built on fluid, sometimes chunky lyricism and harmonic precision of a piece with postmodern pan-stylism and entirely his own. '' [Clifford Allen, New York City Jazz Record]
''The ringing drone of tamboura and curling soprano… Porter's lush accompaniment and ghostly percussive shading amplify Scarff's horn.A particulate horn-piano melody emerges… the leaders unfurl twined yarns over bracing rhythmic push.''[Clifford Allen, New York City Jazz Record]
''Not your typical world jazz release…. Certainly puts a lot into 73 minutes… contemporary jazz… Ghanaian music, Indian ragas, Western classical music, bird calls… it all has a natural, organic flow.'' [Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition]
''Together these four artists shift from conventional jazz to 12-tone music to classical Indian material, but all enhanced through a jazz lens.'' [Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition]
''Variable, elaborate and complex, and ubiquitously forward-thinking… memorable solos… try to find Three Minutes to Four.'' [Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition]
''The music swings mightily and has an absorbing mixture of non-conventional and traditional jazz…an open-minded experience.'' [Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition]
''Variable, elaborate and complex, and ubiquitously forward-thinking… memorable solos… The music swings mightily and has an absorbing mixture of non-conventional and traditional jazz… an open-minded experience.'' [Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition] --*

1: Journey
2: Bageshri-Bageshwari: Part 1 (Introduction, Alap)
3: Bageshri-Bageshwari: Part 2
4: Olivier
5: Long Ago
6: Raga Shree, Gajarawa Baje Hi Rahila Baje Hi Baje Hi
7: Skies of South Africa Suite: Bird Songs of Hermanus
8: Skies of South Africa Suite: Branches in the Trees
9: Three Minutes to Four
10: Striver's Row
11: Serially Retro Suite: Dozens Not Baker's/Retro Cells
12: Raga Bhairavi: Part 1 (Introduction, Alap)
13: Raga Bhairavi: Part 2

Number of Discs: 1

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