The wonderful guitarist Amanda Monaco makes her Sound It Out debut, teaming with some close musical friends – trombonist Joe Fiedler, bassist Sean Conly and drummer Jeff Davis – to celebrate her birthday! Amanda’s guitar playing is “well within the modernist canon, but quite distinctive,” according to the New York City Jazz Record. “Her phrasing is often made up of tartly dissonant chords and insistent yet off-kilter repetitions that remind one of Grant Green by way of Andrew Hill… Her playing is utterly unique, a breath of fresh air in the cookie-cutter climes of both mainstream and free jazz.”