Scott Dubois Autumn Wind Vinyl LP 2017

Mid-September Changing Light
Late September Dusk Walk
Early October Insect Songs
Mid-October Migration
Late October Changing Leaves
Early November Bird Formations
Autumn Wind
Mid-November Moonlit Forest
Late November Farm Fields
Early December Blue Sky And Chimney Smoke
Mid-December Night Sky
Autumn Aurora Borealis
Mid-November Moonlit Forest String Quartet Reprise

In a period in which the boundaries between musical genres are rapidly dissolving, there still exist major differences between what we still call a “jazz” band and those of other musical classifications. Perhaps the most significant of these is that longevity in a jazz ensemble will nearly always have an entirely positive effect on the music. That’s clearly a huge factor when listening to the high-caliber international quartet put together over a decade ago by the New York-based guitarist-composer Scott DuBois.

New release Autumn Wind can be likened to a thematically-linked series of paintings in an art exhibition. The record finds DuBois taking the “seasons” concept to a whole new level with a series of pieces in celebration of the restless, unpredictable nature of autumn. At each step of the way, the quartet take us on a mesmerizingly impressionistic musical journey that is an organic yet highly cohesive mix of elements drawn from the likes of modern jazz, contemporary classical music and Americana.