First Steps

First Steps is featured on ME 3: Chuck Graham's Picks - Tucson Citizen 10 Favorite Jazz CD's for 2007 ME 3 (Metonic Records) - "Asian films have introduced Americans to a Buddhist effect in movie soundtracks. Rhythm no longer carries a story through space but, instead, stays in one place and shimmers. Now Swiss-born, New York-based keyboard composer Manuel Engel applies the concept to jazz. Sure, the idea that silence can swing seems nonsensical. This album proves the opposite."