SONELIUS SMITH & ADAM KAHAN – THE EULIPION PROJECT

Sonelius Smith is the greatest pianist you’ve never heard. A truly unique artist, his ideas are more incendiary than the staunchest avant-gardist (though the avant-garde can’t claim him). He can also be straight-ahead or even in the pocket (but the straight-aheaders wouldn’t touch him). Living the music for more than seven decades and hailing from Hillhouse, Mississippi, he plays with a soul and spirit that are intangible. Infused with tradition and history, he rejects the expected at every measure. He may be inclined to play a well-traveled standard, but then approach it in such a way that sounds alarm bells for the Jazz Police. On any given night he’ll play the most beautiful unimagined music you’ll ever hear, produce puzzling even confounding passages, and patiently give space and silence their due.

The Eulipion Project is a collaboration between pianist Sonelius Smith and bass player Adam Kahan – playing their compositions and works by other composers. The group is joined by tenor saxophonist Rodney Chapman and drummer Dan Kurfirst.