If Twenty Quarter-Inch Jacks is a guitarist’s paradise, Unison Rituals is as unique for the fact that Brady plays on just one track. Featuring compositions that date back to 1983, it is a showcase for saxophones as many as 15 Sound Off a chamber music setting. Even so, the sound of Brady’s guitar is everywhere transposed to the organic sound of the Quasar saxophone quartet on the title piece or to the piano/percussion/cello/saxophone lineup of his own Bradyworks ensemble for Double Helix. Even the massed wind instruments of the digitally multiplied Kappa big band, bulked out to the size of a university marching band have a parallel in Brady’s use of layered electric guitars. In both cases, his emphasis is on the manipulation of long, streaming notes and the textural possibilities that mass creates.

The sole guitar feature, the atmospheric Escapement, illustrates what an effective player Brady is in a relatively traditional setting. The interplay between him and cellist Isabelle Bozzini is gorgeous and rich, and defies catogorization as much as any of Brady’s music.