"Northern Light": Buffalo News Review - Hudson City Records / Hudson City Records

“Northern Light”: Buffalo News Review

Scott Healy-Glenn Alexander Quartet, “Northern Light” (Hudson City). An instructional tale: This was recorded unedited in 1991 by Conan O’Brien’s pianist Scott Healy, guitarist Glenn Alexander, bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Jeff Hirshfield. And then it was promptly forgotten for over two decades until the guitarist brought a cassette (yes, a cassette) of the session to play for his students at Sarah Lawrence College “and they sort of went nuts on it.” So he wrote to Healy “We did this thing 20 years ago but it really held up,” whereupon Healy listened and agreed, saying “I don’t know if I can play that well now.” Imagine when Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays were at their freest and most intuitive together and you’ll have an idea of what this sounds like – and why it’s always a good idea to revisit things you’ve forgotten about for 20 years. Three stars (J.S.)

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