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Tom Van Seters quintet: Narrative

by Stephen Koch
April 18, 2002

Pianist and composer Tom Van Seters has enought musical ideas to fill a book, and you can consider this disc one chapter with eight parts. Relying on his original compsitions and his talents at the piano, he works within this quintet setting to explore new musical territory.

For Van Seters, “After Dark" is a bright happy place where people love their jazz and he shows this by letting his group light the way. The general rule here is ...