LEMON QUARTET レコード& CD

Review: Artsfest from Akron-based outfit Lemon Friends is the latest album from a group that meets to jam together once a week with "gas station snacks and various instruments to see where the night takes them." The members have worked totters in some capacity for years even though this project is rather new and that show sin the tightness of their interplay and the freeform nature of their expressive musical ideas. They are unrestrained by time or genre in what they do as they mix up Fender Rhodes, upright bass, vibraphone, guitar and saxophone over delicate drum work.