Bill Stewart - Space Squid (2016)

Bill Stewart is in the vanguard of the music's contemporary player-composers. Stewart has worked with jazz giants ranging from funk master Maceo Parker to alto sax icon Lee konitz, through contemporary greats John scofield and Joe Lovano. On Space Squid, he reaches for the sky and plumbs the depths with a group of like-minded musical explorers, saxophonist Seamus Blake, pianist Bill Carrothers and bassist Ben Street. For Stewart and his fellow musicians, the playfulness, the musical pranks and sheer joy of playing is serious business. The musicians caress and attack the music from every angle. Each new listening detects and fosters new perspecives, new insights. Fascinatingly delicious, this music is serious fun.