A two time recipient of the ZMR Broadcasters Award in 2020 and 2019 and winner of the 2021 USA Songwriter competition, instrumental category, Todd Mosby is still very much one of a select batch of people to look out for within the music business.

Encompassing elements from jazz, raag, folk, bluegrass and jazz, Mosby has created his own musical syntax, a distinct style which is unique to Mosby’s sound and sense of composition.

“Wherever one goes in the Southwest, one encounters magic, strength, and beauty,” Ansel Adams wrote. Inspired by the same landscape – and Georgia O’Keeffe‘s art – each of the pieces on Todd Mosby’s upcoming album have similar characteristics. Land of Enchantment has magic enough for several releases. Stylish, playful and cool, the album underlines the deep connection between geography, art and culture.

From jazz, jazz fusion and samba to Bossa-nova and folk-rock, the album’s genre defying style makes sure that there is something here for everyone. I enjoy how the sound seems to represent the landscape, from the baking A Place in the Sun to the reflective By The Time I Get To Phoenix. There is a lot to discover in-between with almost limitless replay value.

1. Place in the Sun (5:55)
2. Moonrise Samba (4:56)
3. Native Dancer (5:01)
4. A Distant Light (4:45)
5. Georgia’s World (4:47)
6. Norwegian Wood (3:48)
7. Emerald Springs (3:02)
8. By the Time I Get to Phoenix (4:37)

This luxuriously rewarding set opens on the free flowing Place in the Sun and then brings us the low slung Moonrise Samba, the beautiful, Eastern-hued Native Dancer, before we then get brought the languishing A Distant Light.

Along next is the veritably shimmering Georgia’s World and another Eastern-flavored track, his dutiful rendition of The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood, with the album rounding out on the acoustic guitar-led Emerald Springs, coming to an all-too-soon close on the sumptuously embracing By the Time I Get to Phoenix.

ARTISTS: TODD MOSBY - acoustic, electric, imrat guitars, composer, arranger; TOM SCOTT - Saxophone/Aerophone; VINNIE COLAIUTA - Drums; RHONDA SMITH - Bass; CHARLIE BISHARAT - violin; DAPO TORIMIRO - Piano / Keys; LAURA VALL - Vocalist; TIMOTHY BAILEY - Bass; ARIANNA WOODS - Cello; DAVID LEACH - Percussion and RANYA IBIQAL - Cello.

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