FORTH AND BACK features nine original compositions for jazz quartet by progressive jazz performer Carl Clements (saxophones, flute, and Indian flute).  As one of today's most active saxophonists, Carl regularly performs jazz and world music in jazz clubs and festivals throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Cover art features original painting by Amanda Barrow. 

Forth and Back from the Composer's Perspective:

I often come up with titles after I have written a composition. Usually there is some source of inspiration driving the compositional process, often connected to some kind of deeply felt emotion or a thought that fills me with some sense of our interconnectedness to the infinite. I can't always identify this inspiration at the beginning of the compositional process, and sometimes I expand upon a germ of a smaller idea -a melodic and/or rhythmic theme, a harmonic texture, a groove, an ostinato. But once the compositional process is underway, my more successful pieces usually take on a life of their own during the course of their creation. Sometimes it almost feels as if I'm transcribing a composition that already exists, and that if I listen closely enough to the sounds in my head, it will reveal itself...

Jungle of Illusions features a fusion of eastern textures and modal harmonies composed and performed by Yiannis Kassetas and George Spanos, together with several of Greece's finest jazz musicians. Drummer George Spanos has moved from Athens, Greece to New York City and, within just a couple of days of his arrival, George performed with world-renowned saxophonist John Zorn at The Stone, one of New York's most prestigious jazz venues.

Original Latin jazz with a hint of French impressionism.  "Classic Nuyerican style with...blues form and feeling...", "interesting twists","...packing enough zing to prickle the tongue without watering one's eyes", The New York City Jazz Record, December 2012. Cover artwork features original oil painting of Ed Byrne, the Conquistador, by NYC artist Pavol Olsavsky III.

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