Aaron Alexander & Julian Priester: Conversational Music

nversational Music is a collaborative effort between established jazz artists Aaron Alexander and Julian Priester, both highly regarded for their talent with their respective instruments (drums and trombone).

 

The title of the album, Conversational Music, is aptly titled, since the structure of the music tends to be that of a back-and-forth dynamic between the drums and the trombone; the songs are like a conversation taking place between the instruments.

 

Conversational Music is a fitting title on another level, too. Alexander and Priester met over two decades ago when Alexander was a student at Seattle’s Cornish College for the Arts, where Priester was an instructor. Conversational Music is the first time the two have worked together in more than 15 years and, as such, can be taken as a musical conversation between the artists themselves...MORE