John Gunther - Painting the Dream (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. In Praise of Softness
02. Mother Juggler
03. In Motian
04. Two Steps Forward
05. Ron Song
06. Blues for Dru
07. Painting the Dream
08. Us
09. Turn About
10. Play Date
11. Elliptical Motion
12. When Time Stops
13. Bubbles
Through his more than two dozen recordings as a leader or chief collaborator, saxophonist John Gunther has aesthetically wandered far and wide, finding colors, textures and grooves that would spur the creations from his invariably interesting bandmates. For Painting the Dream, he looked to pianist Dawn Clement and drummer Dru Heller to help celebrate the memory of his colleague, trumpeter Ron Miles, whose music and ways particularly inspired many in the Denver music scene. He also looks to his mother, Judy Gunther, who supplied the paintings that adorn the cover. Her gifted sense of color and balance affected her son throughout his childhood and undoubtedly influenced his compositions and textural choices, which along with Clement's added vocals and Gunther's use of woodwinds and electronics, evolved into a program ranging from intimate set pieces to sweeping landscapes.

Gunther's music is pictorial without being simply picturesque. What is most immediately appealing about this music is its modesty... it's about small or simple pleasures, the joys of craft... (One Final Note)

John Gunther plays soprano and tenor saxes, flute, bass clarinet and electronics on this pastel'd trio session with Dawn Clement/p-key-el-voc and Dru Heller/dr. Gunther employs Clement's cirrus voice in a number of the pieces as an extra texture of gentility, as his soprano blends with her around Heller's cymbals on Mother Juggler while his tenor ... (George W Harris, Jazz Weekly)

John Gunther, soprano & tenor saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, electronics
Dawn Clement, piano, Fender Rhodes, voice, electronics
Dru Heller, drums & cymbals

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