Bob Bralove And Patti Weiss: Acoustic Conversations
Article Contributed By Dennis Mcnally | Published by Grateful Web on Friday, March 7, 2025
Bob and Patti first played together in 1995 in a big band at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium, doing arrangements of Grateful Dead music. That one performance made them know they had connected. They went on to separate projects, but their musical paths crossed again in the first months of Covid, which sent both looking for a musical relationship amid the isolation of the pandemic. Patti shared a CD of ragas that she had just recorded. Within a week of that first phone call they were donning masks and getting together to play a panoply of music, ranging from Bob’s original songs to Indian ragas to jazz standards. As the pandemic wound down, they began to work in public. Acoustic Conversations is their first recording, one that highlights their prowess as improvisors. Most of the CD was recorded in one session with no overdubs. What you have here is what they played. Drawing from their influences in jazz, classical, and free improvisation, Bralove and Weiss have created a tapestry of music that is as natural to them as a conversation, each one taking turns commenting on the subject at hand: sometimes in agreement, sometimes in opposition, but always articulate and in focus.
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