Seasons (Pete Jolly album)

The effect is startling to say the least, and at times a little unsettling as you wonder where the musician leaves off, and the engineer and technical studio wizards take over.

However, this album is no studio tour de force, but a "Live" recording in the sense that Jolly and fellow musicians Chuck Berghofer, Paul Humphrey, John Pisano, Milt Holland, and Emil Richards got together and improvised their way through 12 tunes in the space of four hours.

The session was basically improvisational, and was completely open end, says Jolly.

“We literally improvised as we went along – using visual and musical communications between ourselves to let the tunes happen, breathe and expand.

There are no familiar tunes here (with the exception of “Younger Than Springtime”) – no lush arrangements, or studio gimmickry.