Winter Light Scott DuBois feat. Gebhard Ullmann

• 1First Light Tundra10:15
• 2Early Morning Forest14:36
• 3Late Morning Snow07:32
• 4Noon White Mountain14:31
• 5Afternoon Ice Fog07:19
• 6Evening Blizzard09:53
• 7Night Tundra04:29
• Total Runtime01:08:35

Info for Winter Light

Scott DuBois, the 37-year old American Jazz guitarist and composer is one of the most important figures on the young New York Jazz scene. His quartet plays original compositions which point to future trends. The group's focus is on collective improvisation, interaction and creating the unexpected. The album 'Winter Light' is programmatic, and marks his debut on ACT. 'Winter Light' transports the listener on a day's journey. The music captures such visions in sound: 'First Light Tundra” opens with the earliest glimpse of light over a cold, desolate landscape as birds awake, call, and fly off into the distance. In a battle between darkness and light, fierce crashing winds obscure the approaching sunrise with flying snow. The sun triumphs in the end. 'Early Morning Forest' introduces a stately pine forest soon pierced by rays of light dazzling snow-filled branches and the white forest floor. Deeper in the forest an ominous cold mist fills the air. 'Late Morning Snow' conveys the elegance and peaceful nature of light on newly fallen snow. 'Noon White Mountain” begins with the day's most powerful light on majestic snowcapped mountains. They are slowly overtaken by dark clouds. A distant storm transforms into a passing gentle freezing rain. Then bright noon light returns. 'Afternoon Ice Fog' evokes mysterious light reflections from the tiny ice crystals suspended in the air. In 'Evening Blizzard' the light is shrouded by the intensity of a snowstorm. Peace and tranquility return in “Night Tundra” where moonlit snow glows in the darkness.

Scott DuBois, guitar
Gebhard Ullmann, tenor saxophone & bass clarinet
Thomas Morgan, bass
Kresten Osgood, drums

Recorded by Thomas Vang at The Village in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 29, 2015
Mixed by Walter Quintus
Mastering by Klaus Scheuermann
Produced by Scott DuBois

Scott DuBois
music is described by Jazz Times as “fascinating,” by Cadence Magazine as “exceptional…faultless, a perfect gem,” and by The New York City Jazz Record as “captivating music for the meditative thinker.” He has recorded two albums with David Liebman for the Soul Note record label, Monsoon (2005) and Tempest (2007), and three albums for the Sunnyside record label, Banshees (2008), Black Hawk Dance (2010), and Landscape Scripture (2012). Landscape Scripture was named one of the “Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2012″ by National Public Radio. In 2015 DuBois signed with the ACT record label, which will release his sixth album, Winter Light, on October 30th (EU) and November 6th (US), 2015.

In addition to being part of the New York City jazz scene for the past two decades, DuBois has toured extensively with his quartet and many internationally renowned musicians performing at jazz festivals and clubs throughout North America and Europe. In 2005 DuBois was also selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. New York City’s Downtown Music Gallery wrote that Scott is “one of the best and most adventurous guitarists in New York City” and Spain’s largest jazz media source, Tomajazz, calls Scott “one of the best modern jazz guitarists.”

The Scott DuBois Quartet, featuring Gebhard Ullmann on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Thomas Morgan on bass, and Kresten Osgood on drums, performs DuBois’s unique, masterfully-crafted original compositions with dynamic group improvisation and interaction, creating massive, colorful landscapes and a spiritual intensity that cuts straight to the heart.

Booklet for Winter Light