February 18, 2007 — The Steve Grover Quintet announces the release
of Between Now And After
In a recent review of the Steve Grover Quintet featured on Between Now
And After, Steve Feeney wrote, “The brass/reeds frontline gave the
combo a varied voice, alternating unison lines with dialogues and musical
squabbles…Like the finest of drummer/bandleaders, [Grover’s] presence
is felt at every moment of the music, providing a rhythmic environment
of power and feeling.”
Between Now And After is now available at CD Baby.
While you're visiting the site, please be sure to check out the sound clips and reviews from the new disc.
Thanks!
Steve
October 15, 2006 — Steve Grover and Invisible Music Records announces
the release of The Garden Above
On October 20, 2006 Invisible Music Records will release the debut CD of the jazz collective featuring David Wells, Tony Gaboury, and Steve Grover entitled "The Garden Above" (IM-2037). This recording features original compositions, standards, and jazz compositions, including a unique interpretation of Sonny Rollins extended piece entitled "The Freedom Suite". The music of this trio is at times spacious, swinging, free, textural, intimate and always melodic.
In a new review from Up Beat magazine, Steve Feeney writes, "This
music is where their hearts are...The Garden Above is an album of real
depth...[an] adventurous release by three veteran musicians who have
reached a new level of individual and collective freedom."
—Up Beat, 10/06
The Wire's Alan
Chase writes,
“The Garden Above” on Invisible Music Records is a fine example of
interactive jazz from the trio of saxophonist David Wells, guitarist
Tony Gaboury and drummer Steve Grover. With no bass, there is a nice
open sound and sense of freedom, not unlike that of drummer Paul Motian’s
trio of the same instrumentation. All three musicians have a strong
sense of time, yet don’t allow themselves to get too locked in. You’ll
hear this on cuts like the opening original “Rise and Shine,” the version
of Charlie Parker’s “Big Foot” and the beautifully rendered version
of Cole Porter’s “Do I Love You,” which features Wells’ warm sound and
imaginative ideas interacting with Gaboury’s colorfully melodic counterlines.
It’s been years since I’ve heard Gaboury in any context, and his playing
throughout this disc is superb. So, too, is the drumming of Grover,
who displays his usual fine sense of time and color."
The Garden Above is now available through CD Baby. If you are interested in more information about the group, contact me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks!
Steve
I am very pleased to announce the release of my latest CD Breath.
I hope you'll take a moment to read the excerpts from my press release
and also listen to the sound clips available on the Listen
page. Enjoy.
– Steve
“Familiarity breeds, in the context, at least, of this exquisite trio,
a breadth of intuitive communication that flows, seemlessly, from composer-drummer
Grover’s pen and h(ear)t, and is, somehow, at the ineffable juncture
of miracle and art, enlarged upon and amplified by his collaborators,
Chris Van Voorst Van Beest on contrabass and the vivid sympatico of
Frank Carlberg’s piano…The commerce between them is easy/intense; swinging
and probing and joyous…and oh! How it flows, so seem-lessly, from Grover’s
pen and h(ear)t all the way over to our ears…h(ear)ts.”
Producer, Dimensions In Jazz concert series
Invisible Music Records presents the June 2nd release of Breath by The Steve Grover Trio. Joined by pianist Frank Carlberg and bassist Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, (and saxophonist Andrew Rathbun for one piece), Breath is a collection of melodic original compositions by Grover that explore various tempos, moods and harmonic textures. Breath represents the fifth CD release by Steve Grover and his third Invisible Music release.
Drummer/composer Steve Grover has led jazz groups since the 1980s. In addition to performing, he teaches at The University of Maine at Augusta, Bowdoin College and Bates College. Steve also conducts clinics as an artist-in-residence and has been an adjudicator at local school jazz festivals. In 1994, Steve won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz/BMI Jazz Composers Competition, and in 1996 was a winner in JAZZIZ Magazine’s “Percussion On Fire” talent search.
