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Two vocally driven tracks, "Not Like This," the Jeremy Lubbock torch ballad popularized in the eighties by singer Al Jarreau, and Xavier Davis' title track composition (inspired by the opening line from the Yusef Komunyakaa poem, "Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel") feature the roux-thick tonalities and interpretive palate of Marianne Solivan, whose memorable voice was heard prominently on harper's 2009 release, Stories in Real Time. The clarinet quartet of Harper, Alec Spiegelman, Kenny Pexton and Nicholas Lewis on these tracks produces a rich and dynamic timbre redolent of human voices commonly heard in the role of background singers in the dearly departed genre of Rhythm and Blues, and the dirge heard only in the soundtrack of romantic love—on life support. Even in its skillfully executed engineering that reveal breaths during rests to fingers pressing keys and moving across strings, we are reminded in this recording of the human touch and presence making all the music possible.

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from The Need's Got To Be So Deep, released May 1, 2014
Jeremy Lubbock
Xavier Davis

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Darryl Harper Amherst, Massachusetts

Over the years, Harper has performed with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roscoe Mitchell, Dave Holland, Orrin Evans, Freddie Bryant, Tim Warfield and Uri Caine. He performed with violinist Regina Carter for two years and toured the U.S., Europe, South America and the Caribbean. He currently holds the clarinet chair in pianist/composer Jason Moran’s tribute project to World War I veteran James Reese Europe. ... more

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