Terry Plumeri has been playing the bass with unparalleled virtuosity for decades. His vocal, penetrating solo work can be heard on Roberta Flack's Chapter Two (dating from the '70's), for example.

His earlier solo jazz releases, "He Who Lives in Many Places" and "Ongoing" (recently re-released on CD as "Water Garden") displayed the defining virtuosity that has made Terry legendary among musicians. They also shared some of his beautifully crafted compositions.

One of the great musical minds of our time, Plumeri may be best known now as an orchestral composer and conductor. Before his considerable success in these areas, however, he redefined bass playing, taking the instrument where nobody else had ever gone - true vocal freedom; the ability to play any idea he conceived, beautifully.

This is not a bass player's record - this is a great composer's and musician's record who happens to be a bass virtuoso. Listen to it as if it were John Coltrane or Miles Davis - he plays with that level of freedom, sophistication, and craft.

Many bassists have ground out scratchy licks and chomped out catchy riffs on the bowed instrument. Others have mastered the classical and baroque solo literature with lovely tone and intonation. Still others have composed and conducted.

Nobody else has ever played bowed jazz solos with such intonation, tone, and pure vocal freedom. His accomplishment is unique, intensely beautiful, and musically ground-breaking. While he has been exploring and developing this territory for decades, here is a powerful record of his recent work, beautifully recorded.

This is a record that people will listen to decades from now and wonder at Plumeri's genius. It is easily the most significant jazz bass recording since Bill Evans' "Sunday at the Village Vanguard."
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Terry Plumeri is one of the greatest voices on the bass in the history of jazz bass playing. There is no other voice like his!
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Absolutely loved this CD.  Plumeri's arranging is outstanding.  Truly an acoustic bass master.  Every one of the traditional selections was extremely well done.  There is not a single dud on the CD.  Love it more each time I listen to Blue in Green.
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Terry Plumeri is probably better known as a composer and conductor of film scores, but this recording displays his talents as a virtuoso bass player. He certainly bows his way through some amazing improvisations and he is aided and abetted in no uncertain terms, by some excellent playing from David Goldblatt and Joe La Berbera.
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