Alan Braufman shares new single “Brooklyn,” the track is off his forthcoming album Infinite Love Infinite Tears, available May 17th via Valley of Search. The track was Composed on a walk from Bed-Stuy to Clinton Hill after attending a concert at Sistas’ Place. Says Braufman – ““Brooklyn” is awash with textures of West African highlife and Afro-Caribbean music. “I’d just watched some friends play at a lively Block Party in Bed Stuy, and it was a nice summer evening, so I just started walking,” explains Braufman. “I always have music running through my head, and somehow the music I’d just heard influenced a new song. By the time I got home to where I was staying in Clinton Hill, ‘Brooklyn’ was in my head, fully formed.”

Braufman also recently announced his Brooklyn album release show at National Sawdust on Friday, June 7th. His ensemble for the Sawdust show will include vibraphonist Patricia Brennan and bassist Ken Filiano, both of whom appear on the album, as well as Brandon Woody on trumpet and Newman Baker on drums. Longtime collaborator Cooper-Moore will open the evening with a solo piano set.

Infinite Love Infinite Tears was Produced by Braufman’s nephew Nabil Ayers, the album welcomes the damp glissandi and pointed globules of Patricia Brennan’s vibraphone. Bassist Ken Filiano, drummer Chad Taylor, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, and percussionist Michael Wimberly (heard on two cuts) have worked with Braufman since 2018 both in concert and on record, lending a continuously unfolding familiarity to the proceedings.

All six pieces on Infinite Love emerged from Braufman’s near-constant mental soundtrack shortly before convening the band. Rarely does he sit down at the piano or assemble his horn to compose, instead singing tunes to himself and whatever sticks after a few days ends up in his composition book. The result is a surprisingly catchy program of “free jazz,” and as Braufman is keen to point out, four are in major key – a fairly uncommon approach in this music, which frequently relies on minor keys and non-western tonality.

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