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American Voices. Music of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, George Gershwin, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Ornett Coleman, and others. Mark Hetzler, trombone; Lisa Leonard, piano; Mike Orta, Jazz piano; Dennis Marks, boublebass. Recorded in 2001, at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Florida International University, Miami. Engineer: Abram Kreeger. 71+ minutes. Summit 331.
The soundstage on this low-key, sometimes jazz-oriented Summit release exhibits a realistic feel that sets it apart from what many other small-ensemble releases deliver. The balance between the recorded ambiance and the sound coming from the stage is superb, and there is no fake highlighting of individual instruments that tells you that an engineer was feverishly twisting dials. The dominant instrument here is the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Two Channels.(Sound Recording Review)