Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door (Extended Edition) (2026) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Chris Cheek
Title: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Extended Edition)
Year Of Release: 2026
Label: Analog Tone Factory
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 44:25
Total Size: 227 MB / 1.72 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Extended Edition)
Year Of Release: 2026
Label: Analog Tone Factory
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 44:25
Total Size: 227 MB / 1.72 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Kino's Canoe (3:34)
2. Smoke Rings (4:30)
3. O Sacrum Convivium! (6:48)
4. On A Clear Day (4:15)
5. Lost Is My Quiet (7:21)
6. From Me To You (5:05)
7. Keepers Of The Eastern Door (4:45)
8. Go On, Dear (5:18)
9. Broken Shadows (2:53)
Reviews
"On this beauteous and deceptively understated gem of an album, ever-tasteful saxophonist Chris Cheek makes a gentle-but-firm alliance with another notoriously tasteful musician, guitarist Bill Frisell, in clean-tone mode. […] The result is magical. […] All told, the album is a thing of subtle beauty and neo-hip grace.”
- Josef Woodard, DownBeat
"Recorded live to 1/2-inch two-track analog tape on a custom tube Ampex 351 deck at 30 ips, "Keepers of the Eastern Door" is the most sumptuous-sounding and crystal-clear album that has crossed my desk this year. [...] Chris Cheek brings a refined touch and jazzy sensibility to the Beatles, baroque composer Henry Purcell, 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen, and a couple familiar jazz standards in this varied program."
- Bill Milkowski, The Absolute Sound
"Chris Cheek and Bill Frisell are such kindred spirits it’s a wonder they haven’t teamed up more often. Both are rooted in jazz and pop tradition but with a taste for the unknown. The Missouri saxophonist is adept at soothing the listener with warmth and lyricism before taking an unexpected turn. Frisell is similarly inclined, using the reverb on his electric guitar to infuse gentle, even beloved melodies with a sense of the uncanny. [...] Poised between chill out and spine-chilling, this album is a late-night delight."
- The London Times
"Cheek’s choice to interpret classical music by Olivier Messiaen (“O Sacrum Convivium”) and Henry Purcell (“Lost is My Quiet”) a few standards (“Smoke Rings,” and “On a Clear Day”) as well as the Beatles’“From Me to You,” and a few Cheek originals is quite telling into Cheek’s artistic and creative breadth. The presence of the iconic guitarist Bill Frisell tells the rest of the story. This record has a “loose tightness” to it, and everyone is on exactly the same page."
- Modern Drummer
Chris Cheek - tenor and soprano saxophones
Bill Frisell - electric and acoustic guitars
Tony Scherr - bass
Rudy Royston - drums
"On this beauteous and deceptively understated gem of an album, ever-tasteful saxophonist Chris Cheek makes a gentle-but-firm alliance with another notoriously tasteful musician, guitarist Bill Frisell, in clean-tone mode. […] The result is magical. […] All told, the album is a thing of subtle beauty and neo-hip grace.”
- Josef Woodard, DownBeat
"Recorded live to 1/2-inch two-track analog tape on a custom tube Ampex 351 deck at 30 ips, "Keepers of the Eastern Door" is the most sumptuous-sounding and crystal-clear album that has crossed my desk this year. [...] Chris Cheek brings a refined touch and jazzy sensibility to the Beatles, baroque composer Henry Purcell, 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen, and a couple familiar jazz standards in this varied program."
- Bill Milkowski, The Absolute Sound
"Chris Cheek and Bill Frisell are such kindred spirits it’s a wonder they haven’t teamed up more often. Both are rooted in jazz and pop tradition but with a taste for the unknown. The Missouri saxophonist is adept at soothing the listener with warmth and lyricism before taking an unexpected turn. Frisell is similarly inclined, using the reverb on his electric guitar to infuse gentle, even beloved melodies with a sense of the uncanny. [...] Poised between chill out and spine-chilling, this album is a late-night delight."
- The London Times
"Cheek’s choice to interpret classical music by Olivier Messiaen (“O Sacrum Convivium”) and Henry Purcell (“Lost is My Quiet”) a few standards (“Smoke Rings,” and “On a Clear Day”) as well as the Beatles’“From Me to You,” and a few Cheek originals is quite telling into Cheek’s artistic and creative breadth. The presence of the iconic guitarist Bill Frisell tells the rest of the story. This record has a “loose tightness” to it, and everyone is on exactly the same page."
- Modern Drummer
Chris Cheek - tenor and soprano saxophones
Bill Frisell - electric and acoustic guitars
Tony Scherr - bass
Rudy Royston - drums
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