Lone Star

What’s happening, Yuriy?

My new album …For Its Beauty Alone features David Binney, who also produced the record, on alto saxophone; Matt Mitchell on piano and Prophet 6; Rudy Royston on drums; and myself on the bass. It’s all my original music and stylistically I made quite a deviation from my first album with the nonet. I used a myriad of approaches and compositional tools, electronics, I employed different musical structures and forms and even made use of my poetry on it.

“APPROACH THE BASSIST’S ROLE AS A COMPOSER, EVEN