Cat Toren is a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and master improviser.  Her new album as Cat Toren's Human Kind "Scintillating Beauty" is out now on Panormaic Records. "Scintillating Beauty" has become, by far, a front runner for album of year.  A truly transportive spiritual work of musical resolve and healing.  We had a wonderful conversation converting the nature of improvisation, expressing non-musical ideas through sound, the influence and importance of artistic mediums on one another, and more.