CD Review: Michael Janisch/Purpose Built

Jazz bassist-composer Michael Janisch offers us his intricate, yet purposeful, array of self-penned originals for our instruction and edification. His new CD project abounds with innovation, invention, and imagination. Janisch seems to have planned his project in a surprisingly expansive and spacious scale. His music will affect you ,almost in the vernacular of a professor teaching an interested spate of animated students.

His music is quite capable of creating beauty with attendant amounts of melodic and rhythmic interest. In any case, this CD project is intensely characteristic of well written original music that is both warm and rich, and at the same time loaded with feeling which we can certainly assume is what this composer wished.