Album Review: R&D from Jeff Rupert and Richard Drexler
Album: R&D Artist: Jeff Rupert and Richard Drexler Label: Rupe Media Websites: facebook.com/jeffrupertsax Saxophonist Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler come together for their second collaboration R&D, on the heels of their first offering together, Imagination in 2017. The music captured on their latest release was a portion of two nights of music performed by the duo at the Timucua Arts White House in Orlando, Florida in June of 2015. The standards featured on the recording demonstrate the pair's instinct to communicate meaningful exchanges with one elaborating on the other's thoughts, sometimes finishing the summary being posed to the audience. The melodic progressions bond seamlessly as the two hewn imaginative phrases, which they parlay into reclining soundscapes. Lulling nocturnes and soothing bedtime-sounding passages emerge from the recording as Rupert and Drexler weave around one another. Their re-imagine...