Broadjam Artist: Jonathan Le Vay
Song: 16 October 2014
Reviewer: Edmond Allmond
Positive Comments: I enjoy this piece. I like the voicings. AHHHHH!!! at 1:30 this piece opens up and really comes alive. This has the feeling of an improv piece, the more I dive into its complexities…at about 4:50, it takes us down a new path. This feels like a soundtrack for a road trip. Now my mind is trying to decide what the path looks like, and where this road may be… ?…
Constructive Comments: Please forgive me for intruding on your creativity here… at 1:50 this piece just BLOSSOMS! How can you get to this place elegantly, more quickly? The beginning has harmonic progressions that don’t feel a part of this section. Is it just my impatient ear?I leave myself open to whatever the composer puts in front of me. Yet, I also want the ‘familiarity of surprise’. Give me something new, surprise me, and let me not feel yanked off path… Thank you for allowing me to express this. It’s a challenge that I face in my own writing, every day…