in search of stillness

Assembly Quartet

  • In Search of Stillness, Assembly Quartet cover art

in search of stillness is the award winning Assembly Quartet’s first release on AMP Recordings. The recording title is from the second track on the disk, “energy flows nervously … in search of stillness” by Marilyn Shrude, written for the the Assembly Quartet who commissioned and premiered the work at the 17th World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, France. 

This exciting disk also includes virtuosic performances of modern saxophone works written for the Assembly Quartet by Benjamin Taylor, Kurt Isaacson, Simon Fink and John Fitz Rogers.

Assembly Quartet: Jeffrey Heisler, soprano saxophone – Ian Jeffress, alto saxophone – Matthew Younglove, tenor saxophone – Adam Estes, baritone saxophone 

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Reviews:

“…this release by the Assembly Quartet is presented in such a way that one may forget the ambition of programming such a heavy compilation of works. The Assembly Quartet navigates these works with relative ease, and the depth of the quartet’s interpretations yields an album worthy of several listenings for the analytical lister to absorb all of the many subtleties of this seasoned ensemble.

— Jordan VanHeimert, thesaxophonist.org

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Track List

  1. Digital Goldfish – Benjamin Taylor
  2. energy flows nervously…in search of stillness – Marilyn Shrude
  3. Flickering Species – Kurt Isaacson
  4. Mic Check – Simon Fink
  5. Prodigal Child – John Fitz Rogers