Sounds (Rob Brown album)

Sounds is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 2006 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label.

Instead of the conventional sax-bass-drums trio, it features an alternative combination with Brown on alto sax, Daniel Levin on cello and Japanese Satoshi Takeishi on a percussion set completed with taiko drums.

It was debuted at the 2005 Vision Festival with the Nancy Zendora Dance Company and video art by Jo Wood-Brown.

[2] The All About Jazz review by Sean Patrick Fitzell notes that "The textural range of the instrumentation, particularly the exotic percussion and the music's spaciousness of form allows for non-idiomatic exploration that is not strictly free improvisation.

"[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "A logical move to employ Levin, given how much Brown seems to relish a singing bass tone and long, legato lines...