A Real Gem
Acute jazz songwriting showcased by quiet, fiery playing. Breath achieves its excitement the hard way. Tension is built into melodic compositions and wound into taut improvisations. Grover and his longtime accomplices – Chris Van Voorst Van Beest on double-bass and Frank Carlberg on piano – are bound tight enough to guide each other along the narrow path of focused, energetic quietude. In a perfect world Breath would have a place on the national "best-of" lists.
