Jeff Bird's Music = groove-oriented jazz soundscapes

It is a jazz album. Not the bebop of Charlie Parker nor the Latin melodies of Stan Getz. This is the jazz of improvised grooves and moods. The jazz of a multi-instrumentalist drawing from a wide variety of musical experience. It is the jazz of a naturalist canoeing through the musical wilderness. It is the jazz of a fly fisherman casting into the meandering river otherwise known as Jeff's brain. Melodies float lazily across a sonic landscape and fall to the water in a preordained pattern. Musical lines drift and curl through currents and eddies of rhythm or rest quietly over a dark and brooding pool while the listener waits for a mysterious lurking creature to rise from the depths and take the bait.

Jeff Bird's second solo release is an accurate reflection of both his evolving musical environment and his growth as a composer and arranger. Bird is an old-fashioned experimenter, he tinkers with the components of his music until the elements combine in a serendipitous act of creation. The songs on this CD capture many of the successful byproducts of his curiosity. Grooves, moods, melodies, voices, lyric, musical personalities, performances,and whimsical psychoanalysis are all carefully selected, stitched together and nurtured into a single cohesive framework, like a symphony with many movements.

Performances by Nick Craine, Michael Timmons, Tony Quarrington, Sue Smith, Randall Coryell, and many others are woven into this tapestry of songs, soundscapes, grooves, and musical voodoo. The final result is the story of Bird's musical evolution. A little bit country, largely poetic, partly introspective / contemplative new age traditional-acid-folk, occasionally world beat, sometimes whacky, and always jazz.