Pat Donaher’s path to becoming a jazz saxophonist didn’t begin with that goal in mind. Growing up in Quincy, he was playing piano by 6 – his parents’ idea – and took to it. But like so many other kids before him, it wasn’t long before he started thinking about other instruments too.
“It’s typical of parents saying if you stick with piano for ‘X’ number of years, you can take another instrument,” said Donaher, 46, from his home in Watertown. “That was in the mid-’80s, a time when pop songs still had a saxophone solo. And right around that time I was listening to and really hearing (saxophonist) Charlie Parker, and that was the catalyst; hearing him play ‘Lover Man,’ I said, ‘I want to do that!’ ”
Bob Bradshaw’s previous album, 2019’s “Queen of the West,” was a concept album of sorts, built around a surreal group of characters in the modern West. His new album, arriving Friday, April 30 on Fluke Records also has a theme; delivering a lively collection of songs about connections.
If that seems like a concept nurtured in the past year’s forced isolation and pause for live music, then that would be mostly correct. Somerville resident Bradshaw had been writing new songs and recording them in his home studio remotely with other musicians and then releasing them as singles. Eventually he decided he could make the project a full fledged album, which became “The Ghost Light.” That title is itself an allusion to something you see, or think you see, that provides a way out of darkness.
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