Metropolis Ensemble * Canto Ostinato [New LP] 7/23/13 drastically simplifying modern jazz by

drastically simplifying modern jazz by returning to melody unlike the chord complexity more often heard at the time

Sweetest Waste

just pure quality

Darth Vader's Death 1

The long performance captures unique takes of Monk classics

Metropolis Ensemble * Canto Ostinato [New LP] 7/23/13 drastically simplifying modern jazz bySometime in 2020 I listened to Canto Ostinato for the first time, and my enthrallment with the piece had begun. I was transfixed by it's particular amalgam of harmony, repetition, and pacing. By the spring of 2023 I had constructed and released my own solo interpretation, and I assumed at that point my working relationship with the composition had run it's course. But I underestimated it's magnetism. The following year I was back in it's grips, having