Search - Joe Giardullo Quartet :: Shadow & Light

"Shadow & Light features multi-instrumentalists Joe Giardullo and Joe McPhee backed by the rhythm section of Tani Tabbal and Mike Bisio. Recorded on the morning of September 11, 2001 a hundred miles from downtown New York City during the tragic confluence of events that changed our world forever...the music stands apart. A tribute, yes. A memorial, yes. A prayer, yes. An anguished cry from deep within, yes. The music is all of these, and none of these. The session that was planned for that morning did not occur, but the session that was captured gives voice to the collective emotions of four musicians performing at the very highest level of improvisation and their art...giving an entirely new understanding to being in and responding to the moment. Each working alone, trying to reconcile images and feelings that could not be readily processed, yet somehow finding solace in making music with one another. Quite simply that was the session that was captured, and that is the session we bring you as Shadow & Light with the greatest pride and deepest humility."