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Sumari: Matt Lavelle - trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, alto clarinet, Jack DeSalvo - cello, mandola guitar and Tom Cabrera. - dumbeq, rik, frame drums, bass drum, percussion. Three post-modern multi-instrumentalist shamans channeling intrepid music that extends into jazz, new music, folk and World music.

Matt Lavelle, Jack DeSalvo and Tom Cabrera initiated daily open air improv sessions more than two decades ago. During a lunch at Schlomo's in Nanuet, NY, Cabrera presented Lavelle, then barely out of his teens, with the seminal book Seth Speaks. Both Cabrera and DeSalvo had previously read Seth Speaks and the subsequent volumes by Jane Roberts.

The depth of the young trumpet student's spiritual journey was greatly affected by the book and also eventually prompted bold choices in his career as a jazz musician, improvisor and composer. He would eventually add alto clarinet (and sometimes bass clarinet) as well as the closer family members of the trumpet including flugelhorn, cornet and pocket trumpet. His growth into a master improviser is documented on many recordings including for the Unseen Rain Label.

Drummer and percussionist Tom Cabrera had been a fixture on the Hudson Valley jazz scene already when the trio first got together. Know for swinging various ensembles, Tom had picked up a middle eastern frame drum and began to play it during the trio's daily out door sessions. Tom's career as took him the Orlando with the Julie Lyon Quartet as well as his own trio but his interest in transcultural percussion only grew.

When he returned to New York he immediately got together with Jack DeSalvo to continue where their first duo album left off. Their Unseen rain recordings tell the story of advanced improvisers creating spontaneous, brilliantly sculpted music

DeSalvo, a well-known jazz guitarist performs also on cello, mandola, banjo and other stringed instruments which he contributes to the sound of Sumari.

Sumari, by the way, is mentioned in the Seth Books as a "Federation of consciousness".



Sumari - Matt Lavelle, Jack DeSalvo, Tom Cabrera: Seth Dance

Some of guitarist Jack DeSalvo's vast compositional output and improvisational abandon has an exceptional showing here with his quartet from the mid-90s, including saxophonist Chris Kelsey on Unseen Rain Records.  
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Jack DeSalvo: Sudden Moves

Jack DeSalvo - guitar
Phil Sirois - double-bass
Tom Cabrera - drums
Jazz guitar trio plays Days of Wine and Roses

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Jack DeSalvo Trio - Days of Wine and Roses

Jack DeSalvo - guitar
Phil Sirois - double-bass
Tom Cabrera - drums

Eronal

Jack DeSalvo Trio - Eronal

Jack DeSalvo - guitar
Phil Sirois - double-bass
Tom Cabrera - drums

Time's Fool - ©Jack DeSalvo

Jack DeSalvo Trio - Time's Fool (DeSalvo)

Jack DeSalvo - guitar
Todd Urban - double-bass
Tom Cabrera - drums

Instance©Jack DeSalvo

Jack DeSalvo Trio - Instance

Jack DeSalvo - guitar
Joel Shapira - guitar

Naiads - music © Jack DeSalvo
recording ©® Unseen Rain Records (meyefi media llc) 

Jack DeSalvo and Joel Shapira - Naiads

Jack DeSalvo - 12-string slide guitar, Tom Cabrera - bodhrán, tar, riq, doumbek, bass drum, cymbals, bells

From the UNSEEN RAIN album JUNIPER  www.unseenrain records.com 
Music ©2014 Jack DeSalvo 
Recording ©® Unseen Rain Records/meyefi media llc

Jack DeSalvo and Tom Cabrera - Amla

Jack DeSalvo - mandola
Tom Cabrera - riq
From the UNSEEN RAIN album LIBRA MOON www.unseenrainrecords.com
Music © 2012 Jack DeSalvo 
Recording ©®UNSEEN RAIN Records/meyefi media llc

Libra Moon

Jack DeSalvo and Tom Cabrera  - Libra Moon

"So" performed in rehearsal by Jack DeSalvo Trio - Jack DeSalvo - guitar, Phil Sirois - double-bass, Tom Cabrera - drums at Woodshed Studio. Composition © Jack DeSalvo

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