Lucas Munce

Garth Alper: Spider's Web

by Edward Blanco
March 27, 2023

The Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of Louisiana, pianist Dr. Garth Alper presents his fifth album as leader, Spider's Web, offering seven original compositions of straight-ahead material to follow up his well-received Stratus (CD Baby, 2017). A consistently swinging repertoire throughout, the music on this next chapter is as attention-grabbing as that documented on his previous effort. Reuniting with fellow university colleagues bassist Bob Nash and drummer Chris Munson, Alper adds fellow professor and instructor of ...