As Yet's new CD, Strange but True appeared in December 2009. The CD's eleven original compositions range from subtle to fiery, East to West, tradition-based to as-yet-unheard, and highlight the bandmembers' improvisational artistry.
As Yet's members are Anna Patton, clarinet; Miamon Miller, violin and viola; Eugene Uman, piano; Todd Roach, dumbek and frame drums; and Julian Gerstin, congas and Latin percussion. Anna Patton has blazed a path as an in-demand folk/jazz/world music clarinetist, traveling throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with innovative dance bands such as Elixir and swing quartet Housetop. Violinist Miamon Miller has lived and studied in Romania, performed with numerous Balkan and Mideastern groups in California and New England, and composed for both film and television. Eugene Uman is well known to New England audiences as Artistic and Educational Director of the Vermont Jazz Center. Eugene has appeared with acts ranging from rocker Bo Diddley, to straight-ahead jazz with Sonny Fortune and Sheila Jordan, to the avant-garde.
As Yet's two percussionists tap expertly into the infinite world of folk percussion. Todd Roach, on Middle Eastern and North African percussion, works with multi-instrumentalist Beth Cohen and the group 35th Parallel, and has twice appeared at the international frame drum festival Tamburi Mundi in Freiburg, Germany. Julian Gerstin, on Caribbean and African percussion, is a member of Afrocuban folkloric troupe Grupo Palo Santo and has worked with groups from afrobeat artists OJ Ekemode and Kotoja to experimental jazz composer Joel Harrison.
