French online magazine Citizen Jazz reviewed Life & Umbrella by Javier Red’s Imagery Converter, the quartet of the Mexican pianist based in Chicago since 2015, in a review by Julien Aunos.
What Citizen Jazz wrote
Ils reviennent aujourd’hui avec Life & Umbrella, un album lumineux (…) en compagnie d’un quartet très uni, souverain et sûr de ses idées. (“They now return with Life & Umbrella, a luminous album, in the company of a tightly knit quartet, sovereign and sure of its ideas.”)
Julien Aunos, Citizen Jazz
The Citizen Jazz review
The review describes twelve pieces, often quite long, that give the music time to unfold, praises the economical playing of Javier Red, who also knows how to step back for his partners, and singles out saxophonist Jake Wark, “remarquable saxophoniste, au son très droit et aux idées larges”.
Read the review on Citizen Jazz
About Life & Umbrella
Life & Umbrella · Javier Red’s Imagery Converter · Desafio Candente Records, 12 May 2023. Twelve compositions by Javier Red that describe the emotions, inner world and daily life of an autistic child, and how parents experience it. Javier Red (piano), Jake Wark (tenor saxophone), Ben Dillinger (bass), Gustavo Cortiñas (drums). Artwork by Carmen Chami.
