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Michael Musillami to Unveil New All-Star Quartet in September with Fragile Forms

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On September 12th, Playscape Recordings will release Fragile Forms (PSR#030506), the first recording from Michael Musillami's Dialect, featuring guitarist/ composer Michael Musillami, pianist Peter Madsen, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Matt Wilson. A collection of four established leaders that hopes to tour as a working ensemble, this group performs Musillami's newest original compositions as well as reinventing his previously recorded material.

“'Big, brave and beautiful.' That was Michael Musillami's assessment of Fragile Forms when the smoke from the session cleared," writes journalist David R. Adler in the liner notes. “I was with the guitarist in the studio in early March 2006, eager to digest his new batch of music. Fragile, not the first word you might choose to describe music so angular and assertive. But it's this very paradox that gives the work its vitality. It is full of grit and heedless of rules, but it has an internal coherence that only the most sensitive players could produce."

Critics have called Musillami's music “honest, frequently surprising, and consistently exciting" (Ron Wynn, JazzTimes), “full of ingenious interplay and heated improvisation" (Troy Collins, Cadence), and “an irresistible combination of down-home intimacy and sense of adventure" (Ed Hazell, Boston Phoenix). The Hartford Courant's Richard Kamins summed up Musillami's inclusive sound, writing “His own compositions mine not only the fertile vein of classic jazz but the outer reaches of creative music." With a series of recent recordings listed on best-of-the-year lists in a variety of publications, Musillami has earned notice as the versatile leader of groups ranging from duo to octet. In addition to the members of Dialect, his recent sidemen include Dave Ballou, Cameron Brown, Tom Christensen, Joe Fonda, Michael Sarin, George Schuller and Satoshi Takeishi among others.

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