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While keyboardist Adam Bodine knows his way around a variety of genres, from rock, funk, country, bluegrass and electronica to classical, his past three albums, including his November release
Scenes of Changery, fall under the jazz umbrella. But that doesn t mean he s not playing with genres. Bodine shifts styles within each song.
Take the new album s opener, “Mount Magnanimous.” It starts with a slower Charles Mingus feel before launching into an intricate Frank Zappa-esque passage fueled by Greg Harris’s vibraphone; that s followed by a section recalling Herbie Hancock’s ’70s jazz-funk fusion.
Although Mount Magnanimous doesn’t physically exist, Bodine says the song is about his relationship with music and how the more he puts into it, the more he gets out of it. “The compositional energy and the time and work that I put into piecing that all together, it was like this challenging mountain where I wanted to learn and to grow.”