This is the first in hopefully many reviews I write this year, describing local musical performances as I endeavor to capture I am a lifelong musician in addition to being a lifelong music lover. To me it will always be the language I understand best.
When people play music while people listen to that music, when the audience and performers share their breath, something deeply human and crucial happens. And the PS1 Close House is an intimate venue, the stage set up in the dining room of the historic brick mansion.
As the Sam Ross Quartet played there on Friday, May 9, the sun was setting and traffic flowed by on Gilbert Street. The group consists of Oisin Leopold, a University of Northern Iowa grad from Iowa City, on keyboard; Miles Kean, a Cedar Rapids native and University of Iowa grad on bass; and Milo Savage, a current University of Iowa student from North Liberty, on drums…