Gene Segal - Transformation (SteepleChase Productions ApS 2018)

Guitarist/composer Gene Segal has released three albums on SteepleChase LookOut:

Mental Images (SCCD 33114), Matter (SCCD 33121) and Spiral (SCCD 33132) during the period from 2014 to 2017, all of which received critical and public acclaims. Always being adventurous, unpredictable, inventive Segal showcases his new and in a way debut album here for the SteepleChase’s main label with a little bit more jazz-bound material.

“… rich and exciting chops from Segal’s axe make for a blues jamming delight.” (George W. Harris – The Jazz Weekly on Mental Images)

“… The band has a joyful swing…Music that grows and grows.” (The Jazz Weekly on Matter)

GENE SEGAL guitar

ADAM NIEWOOD tenor & soprano saxophone, ewi

BEN STREET bass

BILLY HART drums

1 EXOSPHERE (Gene Segal) 6:11

2 TRANSFORMATION (Gene Segal) 9:00

3 SANDY’S DANCE (Gene Perla) 5:45

4 THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON (Gene Segal) 7:28

5 DARN THAT DREAM (Jimmy van Heusen) 7:28

6 TWO TIRED SOULS (Gene Segal) 5:58

7 UGLY BEAUTY (Thelonious Monk) 2:11

8 TAURUS PEOPLE (Faruk Dawud) 6:17

9 MYSTERIOSO (Thelonious Monk) 08:05

Gene Segal - Spiral (SteepleChase Records 2017)

Guitarist/composer Gene Segal is rapidly becoming a stalwart regular player of SteepleChase Lookout with this his 3rd album, for which Gene assembles an organ trio. With his unpredictable, open, unconventional style still intact Segal applies a mini paradigm shift to straighter jazz and reveals a new dimension.

1 SPIRAL (Gene Segal) 6:15

2 CREEPER (Gene Segal) 5:40

3 TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY (Gene Segal) 7:50

4 US (Gene Segal) 5:47

5 DHARMA (Gene Segal) 6:14

6 HIDDEN PLACE (Björk Guðmundsdóttir) 6:11

7 SUNKEN TREASURE (Gene Segal) 5:53

8 INTO NIGHT (Gene Segal) 4:41

9 BLUES OUT (Gene Segal) 4:27

10 SOULSTICE (Gene Segal) 6:34

GENE SEGAL guitar

BRIAN CHARETTE Hammond B3 organ

BRUCE COX drums

Gene Segal - Matter (2015) SteepleChase Productions ApS

New York-based guitarist/composer Gene Segal was born in Russia and immigrated to USA as a young child with his musician family. His upbringing in European music tradition combined with American contemporary music including jazz enabled Gene Segal to create his unique universe of multi-layered music.

“…the energy on this CD is different/better in major ways….if raw energy in jazz is your forte – GET THIS one!..I give Gene & all his players a definite MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED…” (Improvijazzation #146 on SCCD 33114 “Mental Images”)

1 FAINT MEMORIES OF HOME 5:00

2 ORDINARY MATTER 9:23

3 MOOD 7:45

4 VORTEX 7:50

5 PATIENTLY WAITING 8:14

6 LIFE IN THE ABSTRACT 5:27

7 STRANGE MATTER 9:42

8 MORPH 5:23

9 SUN KING 7:23

GENE SEGAL guitar

JON IRABAGON tenor saxophone

SAM SADIGURSKY clarinet, bass clarinet

SEAN CONLY bass

JAIMEO BROWN drums