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Adam Hersh (piano), Mauricio Morales (bass), Devin Daniels (alto saxophone), Max Walker (guitar), Benjamin Ring (drums)

Bassist Mauricio Morales remembers meeting pianist Adam Hersh at a show at the Continental Club in downtown Los Angeles. Afterward, Morales needed to get home somehow. “That’s one of the benefits of not having a car,” he jokes, for Hersh gave him a ride that night, asking Morales as they drove away, “Have you heard this record by Wayne Shorter called High Life?”

They became fast friends, matching the rate at which their careers have risen among an increasingly crowded constellation of artists who are redefining the creative jazz scene in L.A. They are launching toward the apex with their first shared collaboration, Between Dreams & Twilight – an exposition of intricate modern jazz composition, featuring nine pieces between the two of them; three written by Morales, three by Hersh and three co-written by both. The album also demonstrates the duo’s brilliant musicianship,…