Keir Neuringer - Ceremonies Out Of The Air (2014)

Ceremonies Out of the Air is the premiere solo album from virtuoso Philadelphia-based saxophonist Keir
Neuringer. Consisting of five extended improvisations performed before an invited audience in August 2013, the album presents the widely traveled
composer-performer s raw emotions laid bare in sound. These ceremonies are physical exhalations of grief at the loss of his mother months before the recording, by turns contemplative, ecstatic, restrained, and unbridled. They reveal Neuringer s prodigious technical vocabulary and physical
stamina, as well as his idiosyncratic compositional influences and sensibilities. Central to all of it is
the uncompromising urgency that is a key facet of Neuringer s creative work. Get hip to what will be on every jazz critic s Top 10 list at the end of 2014!