Justin Piper - Avant Funk (2016)

Label: Self Released

Source: Justin Piper

Genre: Jazz-funk

Justin Piper currently resides north of Boston where he teaches, composes and performs.  He is the musical director for the band Ripcord, and also leads his own group, the Justin Piper Group, who perform improvisation based music and his own compositions , often on 8-string guitar.
 Justin also performs solo regularly, playing 20th century classical music and instrumental arrangements of popular music. His musical interests have led him into a love of Eastern music, thus studying both the Oud and the Sarod.
Justin's philosophy as a teacher and educator is to instill his students with the joy of playing music while also nurturing an interest in the theoretical aspects of music.

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Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren - Mare Nostrum II (2016)

C’est une histoire de coïncidences. De marées hautes, de traditions. De Nord et de Sud, de Baltique et d’Adriatique. Mare Nostrum est un poème en trois temps, une collaboration des plus fortuites entre l’accordéoniste français Richard Galliano, le pianiste suédois Jan Lundgren et le trompettiste italien Paolo Fresu. Un parcours sinueux en contact avec une Méditerranée paisible, bercail d’une musique évocatrice, où les genres les plus surprenants se rencontrent, s’entrelacent. Au loin, on entend des échos de Charles Trenet, des fragments de chansons traditionnelles suédoises et des airs baroques à la Monteverdi. Une douce mélancolie caresse les compositions de ce trio d’explorateurs qui racontent cet instant de grâce précédant l’orage.

Paolo Fresu / trumpet & fluegelhorn

Richard Galliano / accordion, bandoneon & accordina

Jan Lundgren / piano

01. Apnea (Fresu, Paolo) 05:05

02. Blue Silence (Lundgren, Jan) 05:09

03. Aurore (Galliano, Richard) 03:57

04. Christallen Den Fina (trad., arr. by Lundgren, Jan) 05:49

05. Giselle (Galliano, Richard) 05:09

06. E Varie Notti Tre Vie Notai (Fresu, Paolo) 04:30

07. Farväl (Lundgren, Jan) 04:47

08. Gnossienne No. 1 (Satie, Erik, arr. by Galliano, Richard)) 04:47

09. Lili (Galliano, Richard) 03:42

10. Leklåt (Lundgren, Jan) 04:02

11. Le Livre D’un Père Sarde (Fresu, Paolo) 04:11

12. Si Dolce È Il Tormento (Monteverdi, Claudio, arr. by Fresu, Paolo) 06:11

Produced by René Hess / HR Music

Executive Producer: Siggi Loch

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Gérard de Haro

at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines (France), February 23-26, 2014.

Assisted by Nicolas Baillard

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