CD Review - Initiation/Sumi Tonooka

Smooth, compelling, and intellectually satisfying are words that express my reaction to hearing jazz pianist Sumi Tonooka and the ethereal sound of his reed player Erica Lindsay, all backed up by jazz bass veteran Rufus reed. These dynamic artists succeed in creating a formidable musical presence plus a new paradigm of nouveau form and melodic-harmonic nuance. My readers will I hope also note the luminousness and penetration through to our hearts and being in their musical vision and overall delivery.

The group's imaginative power reveals and displays a propensity for future constancy towards artistic growth, albeit a group to be reckoned with now as well into the future.