Album Review: Midnight Sun from Bryan Lubeck
Album: Midnight Sun Artist: Bryan Lubeck Label: Vineyard Music Productions Website: www.bryanlubeck.com Midnight Sun is the follow up to bandleader, composer and multi-instrumentalist Bryan Lubeck’s recording Tuscan Sky , featuring a potpourri of musicians who each infuse shards of elegance into the tracks. A confluence of scripted phrases and spontaneous flights, the release demonstrates Lubeck's keen sensibilities as a smooth jazz artist. Best known for injecting a flamenco tint into his music, Lubeck works with a diverse palette that acts as a elixir on the senses. "If You Only Knew" is trellised in bopping grooves surrounded by fluttering horns and caressing guitar riffs, moving into the title track's succor-rich swells. The storytelling phrasing of Lubeck's guitar chords ruminates gently across "Sun Dress," immersing the listener in a beachside landscape. Lubeck's meanderings on the guitar emblazon "Till I'm Found" with a re...