"Learning Sanskrit, his first recording with drummer Jason Cheek and bassist Dennis Baraw, is less concerned with tracing jazz's boundary lines than with exploring the space within them. Compositionally, texturally, emotionally, the album's eight songs are diverse. "Gingerbread Man," with its stuttering intro and pull-push dynamics, swings like a cut from one of those heady Blue Note LPs from the '60s. The dewy cymbals, probing bass and fluid electric guitar work in "Poplar" recall classic material from another great jazz imprint, the atmospheric ECM label.

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