Steven Kirby "illuminations" Project at Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar

Steven Kirby’s “Illuminations” Project: has been described as “richly textured, multi-layered, exhilarating and lyrical jazz”. It features  original compositions and arrangements, as well as some creative arrangements of standard tunes,  using a quintet of instrumentalists and a singer performing both wordless and lyrical vocals.
An award winning  guitarist/composer and Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Kirby’s music is most often categorized as contemporary jazz but it is influenced by a variety of genres.
“Illuminations” was recently an Editor’s Pick in the prestigious jazz publication Downbeat:...

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Steven Kirby’s “Illuminations” Project: has been described as “richly textured, multi-layered, exhilarating and lyrical jazz”. It features  original compositions and arrangements, as well as some creative arrangements of standard tunes,  using a quintet of instrumentalists and a singer performing both wordless and lyrical vocals.
An award winning  guitarist/composer and Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Kirby’s music is most often categorized as contemporary jazz but it is influenced by a variety of genres.
“Illuminations” was recently an Editor’s Pick in the prestigious jazz publication Downbeat:
“Steven Kirby, a guitarist of rippling technique and a poetic mind, has developed a modern jazz guitar style that bridges the angular lyricism of Pat Metheny and the painterly asceticism of Jim Hall”.
Reviews:
“ music of deep beauty and, at times, spare, folkloric elegance but also an album that doesn't lose sight of Kirby's jazz roots and his penchant for more incendiary playing”
"Kirby expands his palette with a larger group who collectively lift these deep yet eminently accessible compositions off the page to leap out of the speakers."
"Illuminations represents Kirby's biggest leap forward yet -…. as a writer but, equally, as a guitarist who leans towards inimitable lyricism yet also possesses the chops to burn brightly as the music demands it”
John Kelman (All About Jazz)

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