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"The music here is beautiful, lyrical and thoughtful. Two pros taking care of business!!"
- DAVID LIEBMAN
After a decade of collaboration, master guitarist John Stowell and BayArea saxophonist Michael Zilber along with the dynamic bass/drum duo of John Shifflet and Jason Lewis, have developed a sound widely hailed as empathetic, intuitive and conversational. For their third Origin release, they offer another set of melodic and reflective modern jazz, drawing equally from modern swing, post-bop and their deep life experiences. "...an intimate quartet affair, marked by the kind of soulful, instinctual interplay that fans have come to expect." JazzTimes
1 Basement Blues 5:19 (Michael Zilber/BMI)
2 Nobody Else But Me 5:49 (Jerome Kern)
3 Stowell in Heart 5:11 (Michael Zilber/BMI)
4 Stay Right There 5:09 (John Stowell/BMI)
5 Violin Memory 4:45 (John Stowell/BMI)
6 Later That Night 5:54 (LewisShifflettStowellZilber/BMI)
7 I Wish 4:36 (John Stowell/BMI)
8 Have Yourself a Vince Guaraldi Xmas 9:41 (Michael Zilber/BMI)
9 Stowell Mates 8:31 (Michael Zilber/BMI)
10 Very Early 4:24 (Bill Evans)
John Stowell - Guitars
Michael Zilber - Saxophones
John Shifflett - Bass
Jason Lewis - Drums
Produced by John Stowell & Michael Zilber
Recorded by Dan Feiszli at Trilogy, San Francisco, and John Schimpf at 25th Street, Oakland, CA
March, 2012 & March, 2015
Mixed by Dan Fesizli at What's For Lunch? Recording, El Cerrito, CA
Cover photos by Eugene Sergeev
Artist photos by Andy Nozaka
Cover design & layout by John Bishop
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Basement Blues
