Jazz Articles

J. Arif Verner: Through the Timeless

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

J. Arif Verner's music is full of the “sense of wonder" which is the hallmark of successful spacemusic. Although not connected with any planetarium show or “program," this album suggests starscapes, galaxies, and open skies, as well as more earthly scenes evoked by the sound of ocean surf – which, for some reason, doesn't sound like the cliché it usually does in this kind of music.

Verner's playing, both on synthesizers and on guitars with some percussion, is firmly based ...