Tomo

Tomo: I'll Always Know

by Edward Blanco
June 14, 2007

West Coast composer Reed Kotler describes himself as a project-oriented songwriter with one burning ambition, to have his music heard! This led to the creation of his own label (Tori Records) to facilitate various groups in performing his music. Kotler even came up with the idea of forming a quintet to record his charts and gave it the “Tomo name which means “friends in Japanese.

Tomo is no typical quintet--with the likes of piano virtuoso Bill Cunliffe leading ...