In a effort to unite multileveled compositions with expansive improvisation, these comrades convened at Jon Berger’s on River Road to experiment with and develop the wide ranging music on their first UNSEEN RAIN album as a group. Drummer and multi-percussionist Berger, with old friends Lee Marvin (double bass) and Jack DeSalvo (guitars, alto guitar, mandola) along with multi-reed wizard Dan Willis navigate compositions with roots in jazz, new music and folk and ethnic music with astounding freedom and aplomb.

  1. Call and Answer
  2. Beyond a Shadow
  3. Twenty Six
  4. First Breath
  5. Nuvyu
  6. The One Coming Closer
  7. Wood’s Edge
  8. From a Memory to a Dream
  9. Mia

Dan Willis, soprano and tenor saxophones
Jack DeSalvo, guitar, alto guitar, mandola, mandolin
Lee Marvin, double bass
Jon Berger, drums and percussion

Beyond a Shadow and From a Memory to a Dream by Lee Marvin
All other compositions by Jack DeSalvo

Produced by Bruce Ditmas and Jim DeSalvo

Recorded June 11, 2011 at Tedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ by Tom Tedesco
Mixed and mastered by Jim DeSalvo at Beanstudio, Wayne, NJ
Design and photos by Qua’s Eye Graphix

Unseen Rain UR-9994