Jason Stein - Solo: In Exchange for a Process

It does take courage to record a solo CD on bass clarinet. But Jason Stein knows exactly what he is doing. Being a very active member of the Chicago new music scene, his solos are not songs, per se, nor displays of bravado or ostentation. As Art Lange writes in his liner notes, "his are, to my ear, spontaneous etudes... Stein's solo improvisations are not abstract exercises. They are literally about the way he plays the bass clarinet, how his breath filters through it and is transformed into degrees of pitch, texture, tone color, percussion, and voice..."

1) For the Sake of Edgar Pollard
2) For Ishan
3) History Histrionics
4) Paint By Number
5) E.P. And Me
6) Hystercal Eric
7) Murray Flurry
8) Temporary Framing of Dr. J
9) Handmade Chicago
10) For Peter
11) Fiction of C.G