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Bassist Mauricio Morales and Pianist Adam Hersh, Who are redefining the creative Jazz scene in L.A., collaborate on Between Dreams & Twilight, an exposition of intricate Modern Jazz composition.

Bassist Mauricio Morales remembers meeting pianist Adam Hersh at a show at the Continental Club in downtown Los Angeles. Afterward, Morales needed to get home somehow. “That’s one of the benefits of not having a car,” he jokes, for Hersh gave him a ride that night, asking Morales as they drove away, “Have you heard this record by Wayne Shorter called High Life?”

They became fast friends, matching the rate at which their careers have risen among an increasingly crowded constellation of artists who are redefining the creative jazz scene in L.A. They are launching toward the apex with their first shared collaboration, this just-released Between Dreams & Twilight which features nine pieces between the two of them; three written by Morales, three by Hersh and three co-written by both.

The album also demonstrates the duo’s brilliant musicianship, gleaming in the company of their exemplary bandmates: vibraphonist Warren Wolf, guitarist Mike Moreno and drummer Gary Novak, along with the L.A.-based Rogue Lemon String Quartet.

1. Eurybia
2. Reminiscence
3. Low Life
4. Cosmic River
5. Poem To The Red Leaf
6. Sand From a Broken Hourglass
7. Where The Olive Trees Wither
8. Velos De Tormenta
9. Retratos De Vida Interrumpida

Complementing each other smoothly here from start to finish, from top bottom, they open on the ____________ of Eurybia (named evocatively for the daughter of Pontus and Gaia, god and goddess of the sea and earth in Greek mythology) and then we get brought forth the melodically themed Reminiscence, their enigmatically impassioned homage to Hersh’s guiding light, Wayne Shorter, Low Life, and then comes the spaciously sonic Cosmic River (named after the astronomical term for celestial phenomena).

Along next is the __________________ of Poem To The Red Leaf (which is about a mystery in a video game Morales enjoyed playing) which is itself backed seamlessly by a stirringly ornate Sand From a Broken Hourglass, the _____________ of Where The Olive Trees Wither, the set rounding out on the ____________ of Velos De Tormenta (Spanish for “Veil of Storms”), coming to a close on a most glorious tribute to Morales’ uncle who passed, the emotive Retratos De Vida Interrumpida (which translates to “Portraits of a Life Interrupted”).

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