by jef@creative80.com | Jun 24, 2024 | reviews
What happens when we listen, really listen, to one another? We have the basis for a delightful and insightful conversation. And, if we are truly listening, we may not know exactly where any particular conversation is going to go. That’s fine. What results from such...
by jef@creative80.com | May 30, 2024 | reviews
seven conversations is a truly outstanding collaborative album by Jeff Oster (flugelhorn and trumpet), Vin Downes (electric guitar) and Tom Eaton (keyboards and bass). All three musicians are very well-known artists in their own right with solo albums as well as...
by jef@creative80.com | May 14, 2024 | reviews
In March of this year I ended my review of the trio’s previous release, then known as Departure (a live recording from John Diliberto’s Echoes radio show in 2017) thusly: “Sadly, that’s all there is, nineteen minutes only, Departure’s only recording to date, but...
by jef@creative80.com | May 6, 2024 | reviews
Three major figures of the New Age scene combine forces making music in an unusual way for the genre. The aptly titled Seven Conversations chronicles the meeting of Jeff Oster (flugelhorn), Vin Downes (guitar) and Tom Eaton (keyboards and bass), doing what they do...
by jef@creative80.com | Apr 29, 2024 | reviews
Improvising in an ambient space is something that doesn’t happen so often, especially if you intend on staying in that space and not, say, dropping in Black Sabbath power chords or John Coltrane sheets of saxophone sound. Miles Davis did it with “He Loved Him...
by jef@creative80.com | Apr 26, 2024 | reviews
I suppose it doesn’t hurt that SEVEN CONVERSATIONS is created by three of my best friends; Jeff Oster (horns), Vin Downes (guitar) and Tom Eaton (keyboards). After listening to the entire project three times now, I can say in all...
