Unclassified Affections LP (Pi Recordings)

Unclassified Affections (2025) is a captivating jazz quartet album that showcases Weiss’s compositional vision and rhythmic mastery. Featuring trumpeter Peter Evans, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, and guitarist Miles Okazaki, Weiss crafted each piece specifically to highlight the unique strengths of these collaborators. The music flows between contemplative, meditative textures and dynamic, intense peaks, driven by Brenan’s resonant mallet work, Evans’s innovative trumpet lines, Okazaki’s harmonically rich guitar, and Weiss’s hypnotic polyrhythms. What emerges is a focused, immersive sound world where subtlety, improvisation, and layered interplay converge in a mysterious, unclassifiable musical journey.