Michael Bisio - MbeforeThe Michael Bisio Quartet is a new kindred spirit assembly featuring the veteran bassist alongside Mat Maneri (viola), Karl Berger (vibraphone) and Whit Dickey (drums). Their melodiously alluring debut album, MBefore, features the four virtuoso improvisers communing on a set of original compositions by Bisio & Berger, plus a free minded take on the standard "I Fall in Love Too Easily". Michael Bisio has earned just praise for his textured solo

Educating a child prodigy was not only a potentially very lucrative business for ambitious parents in Mozart's time

and Adventure Music debut

with it's broad sound spectrum and numerous fundamental voices

" (Charles Ives) Inspired by these enticing words

Dee Dee Sharp

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Alongside the featured artists

welcoming sound

this is his only real song cycle

Terreon Gully and Kassa Overall on drums and Andrew Renfroe on guitar

faring better than Smash Mouth's ubiquitous 1998 version

The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing