Michael Jones, Echoes of Childhood - 1h 7m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. Of the Wood Thrush	4:27
2. Call to the Dance	16:53
3. Dream of the World	9:19
4. Summer's End	7:45
5. In the Dark Wood Lost	7:37
6. Echoes of Childhood	4:19
7. New Born Day	13:24
8. Dream of the World (Reprise)	4:08

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Review

In 1983, the softly impressionistic Pianoscapes by Canadian Michael Jones was the inaugural CD release for the then-fledging Narada label. Two decades later, while Narada has vastly expanded its stylistic palette, Jones' remains true to his extemporaneous musical impulses, as evidenced on Echoes of Childhood, his 11th career recording. Like Pianoscapes, Echoes was recorded in one sitting in his home studio and, like most of his projects, beckons us to awaken childlike instincts (joy, wonder, innocence) obscured by adult concerns. More improviser than composer, Jones can sometimes frustrate as well as charm. Devotees praise Jones for the enchanting eurhythmy of his soul-searching works, which often extend beyond 10 minutes. Others view his approach as meandering and unfocused, and Echoes can elicit both points of view. Happily, Echoes overall ranks among Jones' more accessible works, where lovely melodies unexpectedly bloom within his pastoral ruminations, then quietly recede as the music follows a new, reflective path. At times, the sheer volume of notes and florid trills overpowers the meditative spell of his reveries, though this becomes a largely tolerable flaw. Jones, a musician/educator whose work was integrated into a 1990s think-tank endeavor, the MIT Dialogue Project, is one musician who takes a sincere interest in pondering music's relationship to human well-being. Newcomers to Jones are encouraged to investigate his early-career retrospective, Michael's Music, and After the Rain, with contributions from Grammy-winning oboist Nancy Rumbel. --Terry Wood"we see the world around us filled with the aliveness of the dream. But all too soon shades of adulthood close in upon us until one day when the echoes of childhood come riding on the fresh wind and bring with it the innocence and brightness of a new born day"

Taking these words from William Wordsworth as inspiration, Michael Jones hauntingly beautiful solo piano recording captures with rich lyrical imagery the timeless human journey from innocence lost to innocence regained. Creating music that is as emotionally evocative as it is flawlessly performed, Jones adds to his twenty year legacy of fine piano recordings with an outstanding body of original work that is energetic, soaring, playful, and yet also his most grounded and openhearted work to date.

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