1st December 2014: Prior to his European tour starting on December 2nd, more reviews in for Bobby Avey’s ‘Authority Melts From Me’: 5 Stars from All About Jazz, Concerto Magazine and more…

Authority Melts from Me is the fascinating new album from Bobby Avey, praised by the New Yorker magazine as “A young pianist of invention and refinement.” Winner of the 2011 Thelonious Monk Competition for composition, Avey also received the 2011 “New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development Grant” from Chamber Music America, which enabled Avey to travel to Haiti to record a Vodou Ceremony in the small village of Soukri and subsequently create an hour-long suite grounded in rhythms found in Haitian Vodou drumming. This compelling suite of new music pays homage to the Haitian Revolution.  Bobby Avey starts his tour in London on December 2nd featuring Miguel Zenon (alto sax), Ben Monder (guitars), Michael Janisch (double bass),and Jordan Perlson (drums).

Read the highlights from the latest reviews;

Composer and pianist Bobby Avey, the young native of Pennsylvania, uses music to make an important statement about the socio political history of the people of Haiti and pours his views into a tense suite under the meaningful title Authority Melts From Me.’”
Concerto Magazine

“A powerful work.”
Westzeit

“With Authority Melts From Me, pianist Bobby Avey, armed with a sense of inter-cultural understanding that may actually be more keen than his mind-boggling musical skills, has forged a defining statement; one that captures many aspects of the life and times of the Haitian people past and present. He and his musical compatriots tell these stories unflichingly; without resorting to cliché or grandstanding. The history of Haiti, like Avey’s music, is rife with visceral raw emotion and life-and-death struggles. It’s as if the dark complexity, urgency and breakneck pace of Authority Melts From Me comes directly from Avey’s sense of the plight, and the fight, of a nation and its people.”
5 Stars, All About Jazz (Full Review)