Reach In This Dream

Tom Ross’s new album of global jazz songs is finished. The guitar-drenched music is rooted in jazz with influence from India and Africa. Lyrically, the songs spring from poets such as W.S. Merwin, Stephen Dobyns, Billy Collins, and Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The stories range from a dream about being saved by a dolphin, to being trapped in a tree and carved into a mermaid, to the fate of a man who falls in love with a star. The all-acoustic album has Jody Cormack, vocals, Steve Gorn, Indian bamboo flute, Josh Zucker, bass, and Dave Black, drums, with Tom on voice, guitars, soprano sax, and percussion. The moods range from brooding to sexy to funny. Available now. Click here for the order form. Coming soon, concerts in: Lexington, Massachusetts San Francisco, California [ more calendar details ]

Jazz-based acoustic guitar songs with influence from India and Africa. The textures are leaner and the debt greater to poets such as Pablo Neruda (whose line prompted the title song). Lyrics also based on the work of Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, and George Herriman of the Krazy Kat comic strip.

These intricate global jazz songs by the Cormack & Ross band feature Jody Cormack, Tom Ross, Charlie Keagle, Patrick O’Hearn, Kim Calkins and special guest Ashish Khan.

“Hearing Tom Ross is like hearing the world speak a single musical language.”