Sunday, May 20, 2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018
John Christensen - Dear Friend (SHIFTING PARADIGM RECORDS June 15, 2018)
1. John Christensen - Dear Friend
2. Something Said In Passing
3. Hay-De Hoedown
4. Slate Icicles On Trees
5. Spooky Action At a Distance
6. Prairie Grass Suite
7. Smells Are Awesome
John Christensen - bass
Johannes Wallmann - piano
Dave Miller - guitar
Andrew Green - drums
Chad Taylor - Myths and Morals (EARS&EYES RECORDS 2018)
One of the most prolific drummers/percussionists over his three decades of performing and recording with some of the modern, improvised music’s most influential musicians such as the late Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Matana Roberts, Ken Vandermark, Marc Ribot, and Jeff Parker, Chad Taylor has defined his voice as one that is unique, rawly refined, unending in creativity, and historically relevant in the world of modern creative music. His partnership with Rob Mazurek in the Chicago/ London Underground Duo/ Trio/ Quartet/ Orchestra, has placed him in an individualistic stylistic mode of playing that is distinct and undoubtedly original.
Let's also not forget his contributions to folk/rock/pop groups such as Stereolab, Sam Prekop, Yo La Tengo, Doug McComb’s Brokeback, Glen Hansard and Iron & Wine. Most recently, Taylor’s work can be heard on critically acclaimed releases of 2017 such as Jaimie Branch’s Fly Or Die (praises from The New York Times, Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld, Ryley Walker, Jazz Right Now, BandCamp Best of…, and more) and Eric Revis’ Sing Me Some Cry release alongside MacArthur Fellow Ken Vandermark and Kris Davis.
This album isn’t a typical solo drum recording with the artist playing a drum set the whole time with repetitive beats and/or complex fills. It really resonates as an adventure through a variety of sonic fields. Take ‘Gum Tree’ for example where you can hear the actual fingers hit the keys of this difficult and rare instrument heard in the jazz field: the Mbira, which comes from the Shona people where what is modern day Zimbabwe, Africa. ‘Carnation’ feels as if we’re in the soundtrack recording session of a mystery lo-fi set in the middle of a darkened forest with his use of cymbal treatments.
1. Arcadia 06:47
2. Phoenix 06:02
3. The Fall of Babel 06:14
4. Carnation 04:11
5. Gum Tree 03:32
6. Abtu and Anet 03:28
7. Island of the Blessed 09:05
8. Simcha (bonus track) 01:44
Elliot Bergman - electric kalimba
Recorded by Will Holland at Selva Recording, Brooklyn NYC
All music by Chad Taylor (CTORB ASCAP)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago USA
except 'Simcha'
Hood Smoke - Cannonball Porch (EARS&EYES RECORDS)
Bridging both genres and generations with original music steeped in the history of its influences, Hood Smoke’s sonic narrative illustrates timeless stories using beautifully simple melodies set to a rhythmic foundation built firmly from the bass up.
Since the release of their debut album, Laid Up In Ordinary (2012), Chicago’s Hood Smoke has continued to narrow the gap between retro and modern sounds in a unique and sincere way.
The band is a tour de force whose past and present members have performed with Quincy Jones, Earth, Wind & Fire, Koko Taylor, Rhymefest, Nick Lowe, Chris Thile, and Umphrey’s Mcgee.
With their second album, Regular Neurotic (2014), the band began its collaboration with producer and engineer Anthony Gravino. The record’s anthem “Never Suffering” gained the band recognition from American Songwriter and the Chicago Sun-Times declared Hood Smoke a “must-see act.”
With their third release Rough Around The Hedges (2016), which Newcity described as “whip-smart jazz-funk-fusion” whose “lyrics are top-notch throughout,” Doherty proved his prolificacy as a composer and lyricist. 2016 also marked the band’s first national tour as they wooed audiences at large rock festivals and intimate jazz clubs, alike.
The band’s fourth album Cannonball Porch (2018) showcases Doherty’s vulnerable and melancholic voice on what he promises to be “the most simplistic, lyrically creative, and to the point” Hood Smoke album to date.
1. Storybook 05:24
2. Porcelain Flowers 04:43
3. Blue Janie 03:57
4. Seneca Lake 03:08
5. El Salvador 03:39
6. Feel Lost 04:07
7. Crackerjack 04:51
8. Easy To Obsess (So Much Of One) 04:44
9. Depending On The Fool 03:29
10. Off Clouds 04:18
Matt Piet Trio - Live In Chicago (EARS&EYES RECORDS 2018)
Pianist Matt Piet is joined by other notable rising Chicago improvisers Charlie Kirchen on bass and Julian Kirchner on drums.
This compilation of three albums tracks the live, in-performance progress of three improvising musicians over six months: from autumn of 2016 to spring of 2017.
"Live In Chicago" chronicles:
three up-and-coming young improvisers
in their first three live performances together as a trio
at three of Chicago's most essential outlets for improvised music.
"Matt Piet has so much to say and this [trio] becomes the perfect vehicle for it." - Philip Coombs, Free Jazz Collective
Compilation Features:
Three Matt Piet Trio Albums
-Live At Constellation
-at the Hungry Brain
-Live at Elastic Arts
Album art painted live at the trio's first performance by artist Lewis Achenbach
HD video of the full performance of Live At Constellation, from the same performance
1. Improvisation One 22:27 video
2. Improvisation Two 18:55 video
3. Improvisation Three 10:14 video
4. A Tad Forward 04:46
5. Aluminum Ally 12:45
6. Trialogue 06:29
7. Assembly Required 08:58
8. Shan't Be Gone Long 08:22
9. I 24:22
10. IIa 09:02
11. IIb 06:14
12. IIc 05:39
Charlie Kirchen, bass
Julian Kirshner, drums
"Live at Constellation"
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Dan Nichols
"at the Hungry Brain" and "Live at Elastic Arts"
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Dave Zuchowski
Album artwork by Lewis Achenbach
Painted live 10/22/2016
3X4FT acrylic on panel
Matt Piet - City In A Garden (EARS&EYES RECORDS June 15, 2018)
Matt Piet is an improvising pianist, composer, and music director. Matt was born and raised in suburban Chicago, began his studies as a pianist and vocalist at age ten, and was a proficient classical pianist and accompanist by his early teens. Piet set aside his classical studies to focus on jazz, improvisation, and composition during his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Piet returned to Chicago in 2014, and has since been an active participant in Chicago's rich jazz and improvised music scene. In addition to playing many ad hoc improvised performances as a leader and a sideman, he has three working trios: Four Letter Words, Matt Piet Trio, and the trio Rempis/Piet/Daisy. In 2018 he released two highly praised recordings on Clean Feed Records and Astral Spirits Records, with a forthcoming release, City In A Garden, to be released June 15th, 2018 on ears&eyes Records. In addition to performing regularly as an improviser, Piet works actively as a teacher, Music Director, and accompanist throughout the Chicagoland area.
1. with Macie Stewart I
2. with Gerrit Hatcher, Charlie Kirchen & Julian Kirshner 09:22
3. with Steve Marquette I
4. with Bill Harris & Jake Wark I 02:00
5. with Charlie Kirchen & Julian Kirshner
6. with Macie Stewart II 05:02
7. with Steve Marquette II
8. with Gerrit Hatcher
9. with Bill Harris & Jake Wark II
All tracks are "named" by the musicians on the track, as they are all improvisations...
featuring:
Bill Harris - drums
Gerrit Hatcher - tenor saxophone
Charlie Kirchen - bass
Julian Kirshner - drums
Steve Marquette - guitar
Macie Stewart - violin & voice
Jake Wark - tenor saxophone
Recorded at belAir Sound Studio by Todd Carter in Chicago IL USA
Mixed & Mastered by Dave Zuchowski
Produced by Matt Piet
Executive produced for ears&eyes Records by Matthew Golombisky
Art/design by Fede Maks
Mike Westbrook Concert Band - The Last Night At The Old Place (CADILLAC RECORDS May 25, 2018)
So many good things were contained within the Mike Westbrook Concert Band of 1968 that it’s hard to know where to start. Its personnel included the components of a whole scene of young London-based jazz musicians, bursting with energy and the desire to express the sounds they were discovering collectively and as individuals.
For a time, this band gave them the ideal structure. And when they needed a setting, Ronnie Scott and Pete King were there to provide it. The gift of the remaining 18 months of the lease on the basement of 39 Gerrard Street handed young musicians the precious opportunity to perform regularly in the heart of the West End in a sympathetic environment, free from the usual commercial pressures.
What went on in that basement is crystallised in this historic and previously unheard recording of its very last night, during which the band performed Westbrook’s Release, a suite that drew together many of the composer’s own areas of interest while providing space for a selection of magnificent improvisers to display their distinctive and fast-evolving personalities. What Westbrook had learnt from Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus was the importance of treating an ensemble as a group of individual voices
The humanity of the music was never to be compromised by prioritising a display of technical precision. Which is not to say that these guys couldn’t play. John Surman and Paul Rutherford were just two of the band’s members then engaged in extending the available vocabulary of their instruments. But this was never at the expense of the warmth and exuberance that delighted the band’s listeners, and never more clearly than on this night in May 1968 at the Old Place.
Three months later, Release would be recorded by the producer Peter Eden for the Deram label, its episodes trimmed in order to fit the playing time of a 12-inch LP. In this version, with no time constraints and in front of a sympathetic and sometimes vocally appreciative audience, the musicians are allowed to stretch out in a majestic sprawl of relaxed creativity.
So we have a chance to appreciate at greater length the frantic brilliance of George Khan’s tenor and Bernie Livings’s alto, Surman reaching a peak of youthful ebullience, the nerve-tingling dialogue between Dave Holdsworth’s trumpet and Alan Jackson’s drums, Harry Miller’s unflagging support play, and the wonderful contrast of trombone approaches set up by Malcolm Griffith’s proud roar and Rutherford’s oblique nurdling.
A special place is reserved for the immortal Mike Osborne, whose solo feature linking the standard “Lover Man” and the Westbrook original “For Ever and a Day” occupied four minutes of the studio recording but here is stretched to more than twice that length in a breathtakingly contoured passage of soul-piercing, heart-stopping, sweetly bruised beauty.
I wasn’t lucky enough to be there that night to hear all this magic filling a Chinatown basement. Perhaps you weren’t, either. But we are now.
1. The Few 06:51
2. Lover Man
3. For Ever & A Day
4. We Salute You
5. The Few (2)
6. Folk Song
7. Flying Home
8. Sugar
9. Who's Who
10. Can't Get It Out Of My Mind
11. A Life Of It's Own
Mike Westbrook Concert Band:
Dave Holdsworth - trumpet
Malcolm Griffiths, Paul Rutherford - trombones
Mike Osborne, Bernie Living, George Khan, John Surman - saxophones
Mike Westbrook - piano
Harry Miller - bass
Alan Jackson - drums
Compositions & arrangements by Mike Westbrook, recorded by George Smith
Album produced by Mike Westbrook & Mike Gavin
Friday, May 18, 2018
Glass Museum, le clip de Wu sur le EP Deux
Glass Museum
1er Ep Deux
Sortie le 25 mai chez JauneOrange / [PIAS]
Influencé par des artistes de jazz moderne comme GoGo Penguin, BadBadNotGood autant que par la musique électronique de Jon Hopkins et Floating Points, le duo Glass Museum tisse une musique à la fois dynamique, lyrique, et mélancolique, emmenant l’auditeur dans un univers fragile où piano et batterie s’entrechoquent avec autant de grâce que d'énergie.
Glass Museum redéfinit l’expérience live et démontre le pouvoir émotionnel de la musique instrumentale en associant maîtrise technique et plaisir pur du jeu. « Deux » pousse donc la dualité du combat piano-batterie dans ses retranchements. On peut découvrir la magie et l'originalité de Glass Museum avec l'extrait Wu extrait du Ep "Deux".
Glass Museum comprend deux musiciens miroirs l’un de l’autre, qui revisitent le couple piano/batterie… Une dualité parfaite où une rythmique, entre grâce et syncope, s’entrelace et bondit, s'ouvre à des éclosions mélodiques.
Glass Museum s'est développé dans la complémentarité et la confiance. A leurs débuts, ne comptant que sur eux-mêmes, Martin Grégoire et Antoine Flipo ont construit, avec force et singularité, un univers en combinaisons entre jazz et électronique.
Deux ans après leurs débuts, une cinquantaine de concerts, plusieurs prix et distinctions plus tard, Glass Museum écrit aujourd’hui une première page concrète et profonde avec un disque : « Deux ».
Enregistré au Rubens Studio, ces six titres retracent l’histoire musicale du groupe et ouvrent un sillon riche et prometteur. Infusé des influences du jazz moderne de Gogo Penguin et de BadBadnotGood, mais aussi des sonorités plus électroniques de Jon Hopkins ou Floating Points, "Deux" rend également hommage aux origines classiques d'Antoine et au passé rock de Martin.
Glass Museum redéfinit l’expérience live et démontre le pouvoir émotionnel de la musique instrumentale en associant maîtrise technique et plaisir pur du jeu. « Deux » pousse donc la dualité du combat piano-batterie dans ses retranchements.
Le disque est un objet vivant, solaire, brut, précis et rare. Convaincus qu’il y a au moins deux versions d’un même récit, les Glass Museum ont invités six remixeurs a prendre possession de leurs titres.
Epaulé par des producteurs tels que Haring, Sun Glitters, DC Salas ou Monolithe Noir, le duo a fait de "Deux" le mariage moderne ultime entre la plus pure tradition du jazz, un son orchestral et la mathématique de l'électronique.
NPR stream KAMAAL WILLIAMS’ debut album ahead of release on 25th May
Black Focus Records is proud to present the stunning new Kamaal Williams music video for ‘Salaam’. Filmed in Marrakech by Greg Barnes, the same director who has been working closely with Kamaal on all of the bands visuals and also made the music video for ‘Catch The Loop’, which is actually the sequel to this video. In the director's’ own words:
After working together on ‘Catch The Loop’, Kamaal and I knew we wanted it to be a part of a larger whole, and that the tracks on the album would become chapters, or scenes, from a bigger picture - that the upcoming album, ’The Return’, was in essence, the soundtrack to an unmade, and epic film.
It was almost without conversation that we decided Morocco should set the scene for ‘Salaam’, a place of real connection and meaning to Kamaal and his music. The rest, with the help of the people of Marrakech, fell into place very naturally.
Kamaal aka Henry Wu also adds:
"Marrakech is a special place for me, both spiritually and creatively. Every time I go, I feel alive again and it's a huge inspiration for my work. There is no art scene in Morocco without Hassan Hajjaj, so I couldn’t make this film without his blessing. He introduced me to Amine Bendriouich who introduced me to Yazid and we made the film in two days. Working with local people in the medina and sharing our story with the community made this experience real. Greg Barnes captured the essence of my relationship with the city as well as the colours and the energy of everything in it. The series will continue. A special thanks goes out to Yazid, Hassan Hajjaj, Amine Bendriouich, Ahlam Triki, Mouhcine Zoutina, Abdul Razzaq and the umma of Marrakech"
At times the keyboard work evokes the classic 70s fusion work of Lonnie Liston Smith or Roy Ayers, but underpinned by rhythms more reminiscent of blunted hip-hop and arrangements subliminally laced with the cut-ups of pirate radio. Progressive, funky, cosmic, exploratory and effortlessly musical, this is the sound of a musician honing their craft into thrilling new shapes.
In the US the like of Kamasi Washington and Thundercat have made great strides in opening a whole new dialogue between jazz and hip-hop, drawing in a young, highly engaged new audience in the process. Kamaal Williams mine a similar seam on the other side of the Atlantic alongside other exciting London talents such as Ezra Collective, Ruby Rushton and Shabaka Hutchings.
The Return is exactly that: a return and refinement to the sound Yussef Kamaal were progenitors of, and first set the scene for one of the most exciting musical movements London has had in years.
Notable tracks for old and new listeners are ‘Salaam', 'Situations', 'Medina', 'LDN Shuffle' which features Mansur Brown (of Mansur's Message) and for those die hard Yussef Kamaal fans - they should hear the interpolated roots of 'Strings of Light' in the title track 'The Return’.
Kamaal Williams - Keys
Pete Martin - Bass
MckNasty - Drums
Richard Samuels - Engineer
1. Salaam
2. Broken Theme
3. The Return
4. High Roller
5. Situations (Live In Milan)
6. Catch The Loop
7. Rhythm Commission
8. Medina
9. LDN Shuffle
10. Aisha
Live dates:
Jul 15
London, UK
May 26
Oostzaan, Netherlands
Oct 28
Frankfurt, Germany
Bobby Sanabria West Side Story Reimagined for Puerto Rico Relief
West Side Story Reimagined
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
for Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Fund
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Mark your calendars now
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band live at
West Side Story Reimagined is an ambitious interpretation of the entire score of Maestro Bernstein's masterpiece, all done with a Latin jazz approach. This double CD, celebrating the Maestro's Centennial, will include a 16 page booklet with detailed liner notes and rare photos.
We are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to complete the production. Contributions through the Kickstarter campaign, as well as a percentage from the purchase of this commemorative package will go to the relief efforts in Puerto Rico which is still struggling to recover from two devastating hurricanes last fall.
Hi, Bobby Sanabria here!
Two years ago I came up with the idea of re-arranging the music from Leonard Bernstein'smasterpiece West Side Story and performing it with my Multiverse Big Band, but in a way that has never been done before: a complete Latin jazz reworking of the entire score in celebration of the show’s recent 60th anniversary and Maestro Bernstein’s centennial. However, besides paying tribute to the composer and the music, I saw this as an opportunity to give back and help my ancestral homeland Puerto Rico.
As most of us know, hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico, leaving its residents unable to recover. Puerto Ricans have been American citizens since 1917, and the government's response has been unsatisfactory at best. Six months later, entire communities are still living without food, water, power, and other basic needs we take for granted. I realized the best way I could help was through my music. What better way to portray the struggles and hardships of the people of Puerto Rico than West Side Story? This is a cause many of us are passionate about and every bit of generosity helps. Recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in NYC, this exciting new reworking is West Side Story like you’ve never heard it before, through the exciting lens of the Latin jazz continuum.
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Michael Moss Accidental Orchestra HELIX CD Release Show Friday, May 18th 7-10 PM Westbeth Community Room
CD Release Party for
Michael Moss / Accidental Orchestra:
HELIX
Friday, May 18, 2018
7-10 PM
Westbeth Community Room
(between West St. and Washington St.)
New York, NY 10014
Tickets:
$10 donation
New CD
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Michael Moss, a veteran of New York’s free jazz scene, has assembled a brand-new 22-piece band, the Accidental Orchestra, for Helix, the premiere recording of a pair of his latest extended compositions. Helix kicks off with “The Old One,” which gets its title from Einstein’s name for God. Moss describes this five-piece suite as “an initiation into sacred ground.” He views it as part of a musical tradition stretching from the earliest ritual over the dead to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, through Native American rites of passage into the spirit world, the Jewish mourner’s Kaddish, and Buddhist funeral rituals.
Moss wrote "See Sharp or Be Flat/C# or Bb" while recovering from a fracture suffered in tripping over a curb. The composer brings a quirky sense of humor to the situation, right down to deciding to name his ensemble the Accidental Orchestra in memory of the incident. Moss aimed to let the band swing on this contrapuntal theme and variations mixing jazz, rhythm and blues, and the joy of dance. “Throughout I refer to 'Norwegian Wood'(The Beatles), 'I Feel Good' (James Brown), and 'Bags Groove' (the Modern Jazz Quartet), but do not resort to familiar big band tropes,” Moss explains.
He’s equally at home from a duo setting to an orchestra of 50-plus players. His musical studies have taken him across the globe and through the centuries, absorbing the music of Thailand, the Middle East, Ireland, Europe, East Africa, and elsewhere, with Renaissance orchestras, folk melodies, chants, blues, Latin and other styles catching his ear.
With Helix, “I am extending an American musical heritage, stretching from Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and Louis Armstrong into the future,” Moss says. Listeners can’t help but be captivated by what they hear, as they accompany Moss and the Accidental Orchestra on this life-long journey.
1. I INCEPTION 09:32
2. II BRIDGE/DORJE 02:44
3. III QABBALA / TREE OF LIFE 03:32
4. IV BARDO THÖDOL // ANGELS AND DEVILS / WIZARDS AND DEATHEATERS 03:42
5. The Old One V THE MIND OF GOD _ STREAMING-->THRONE OF GOLD. 15:41
6. SEE SHARP OR BE FLAT/C# or Bb
Jason Kao Hwang, Rosi Hertlein, Fung Chern Hwei (violins)
Stephanie Griffin (viola)
Lenny Mims, Carol Buck (cellos)
Steve Swell (trombone)
Vincent Chancey (French horn)
Waldron Mahdi Ricks (trumpet)
Richard Keene (oboe)
Elliott Levin (flute, tenor saxophone)
Ras Moshe Burnett (soprano and tenor saxophones)
Michael Lytle (bass clarinet)
Michael Moss (Bb clarinet)
Steve Cohn (piano)
Billy Stein (guitar)
Rick Iannacone (ambient guitar)
Larry Roland (string bass)
Warren Smith (percussion, vibraphones)
Badal Roy (tabla)
Chuck Fertal (drums)
Michael Wimberly (djembe, African bells and percussion)
Recorded: October 10, 2016 at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY
Recording Engineer, Mixing, Mastering: Jon Rosenberg
Conductor, Music Copyist: John Shea
Graphic Design: Santry Studios and Oshiin Studio
Dave Sewelson Interviews
Michael Moss
on Little Water Radio: Music for a Free World
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Sean Noonan "The Aqua Diva" CD Release Shows ShapeShifter Lab 8/2 Barbes 8/9
Sean Noonan
"The Aqua Diva"
CD Release Shows
ShapeShifter Lab 8/2
Barbes 8/9
Sean Noonan The Aqua Diva
CD Release Show
Thursday, August 2nd 8pm
ShapeShifter Lab
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(between 1st and Carroll Streets, off 4th Ave)
(646) 820-9452
Sean Noonan drums/vocals/compositions,
Alex Marcelo piano, Peter Bitenc bass
Music Charge $10
Sean Noonan The Aqua Diva
CD Release Show
Thursday, August 9th 10pm
Barbes
(corner of 6th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
347 422 0248
Sean Noonan drums/vocals/compositions,
Alex Marcelo piano, Peter Bitenc bass
Music Charge $10
Noonan is a veteran of more than 20 albums, all of the un-classifiable variety. It might be accurate to state that the albums could be classified with a series of hyphens. The performer is influenced by a variety of sources, and his overall vision for the current project is that of a soap opera with characters named “Aqua Diva,” “Bubbles,” and Butterflies.” The songs on half the CD detail the relationship between the three characters that culminates in a jealous Butterflies murdering Bubbles and the title character. It is not clear that this is exactly what happens without some help from written documents about the album.
Other songs on the album include a track written about late actor Don Knotts, “Elijah Rocks,” and “Smoking Man” among others.
But at its core, the album is fun. The world music elements gives songs gravitas that might be pure whimsy otherwise. At times, jazz elements a moody and nimble bass line for example, reminds listeners that this is, in fact jazz.
The song, “When My Band Goes with Me on the Road,” goes so fast, it practically spins. Noonan’s singing is fast, too, and the instrumentation gives the feeling of a children’s song, as if the challenge is in how fast the song can be sung without messing up the words.
The first song, “A Sunny Day,” begins with a strident piano motif and drums that crash and get louder, more present with each measure until the half-spoken lyrics begin. The rhyming poetry of Noonan’s lyrics plus the instrumentation transports listeners to other places. The middle is marked by an aggrieved dragging of a bow across bass strings while off-kilter drum beats work their way into a shimmer of cymbals, and on top of that busy soundscape, a piano plays notes in its highest register. The end plays on the theme of that soundscape, but the actual sound is more lively, less strident.
There is genius here. Noonan takes listeners on a wild ride, though those who are new to the performer’s work might not know how to take it. “The Aqua Diva” could require multiple spins before the story(ies) of the CD make themselves clear. The elements of jazz are present, but this isn’t smooth or classic jazz for dancing. It is art for consideration and perhaps on some level, boundary-pushing.
“The Aqua Diva” will be available June 1, 2018.
1. A Sunny Day 06:51
2. When My Band Goes With Me On The Road 03:15
3. As The World Spins Around Me 05:00
4. Butterflies Away 03:26
5. Don Knotts 04:52
6. Elijah Rocks 05:01
7. Smoking Man 05:52
8. The Aqua Diva 07:10
9. Where Would I Go 06:15
10. Make Her Great Again 03:23
Sean Noonan, drums / vocals / composition / producer
Alex Marcelo, piano
Peter Bitenc, bass
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Edison Awards 2018 nominees
The Jazz/World Edison Awards nominees have been announced! Among the nominees are 3 Challenge Records artists: Fay Claassen, Joost Lijbaart and the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet. Bram Stadhouders and Eric Ineke from Challenge Records sub labels BuzzMusic and Daybreak are also nominated.
Fay Claassen and her album Luck Child are nominated in the category “National Vocal Jazz”. In the category “National Jazz”, Joost Lijbaart’s Under the Surface and the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet’s Goldbrun are nominated. Eric Ineke is nominated in the “Document” category for his album Let There Be Life, Love and Laughter. The Edison Awards will be assigned by an independent and prominent committee of judges.
The audience can vote for their favorite as well. Fay Claassens, Yuri Honing and Bram Stadhouders are nominated for the public award. Fay Claassens is nominated for her interpretations of her favorite songs on her new album Luck Child. She performs them in a very successful manner, making them her own, stretching her musical boundaries.
Yuri Honing is nominated for the public award with his Acoustic Quartet, for their album Goldbrun. On this album, they focus on the West-European classical music tradition and apply this to jazz music. This way, they create a new view on jazz and the possibilities of this genre. The recording as well as the design are praised by the judges.
Bram Stadhouders and his album and accompanying project Big Barrel Organ are also nominated for the public award. The guitarist plays the Rhapsody dance-organ with his guitar, using MIDI as a communication medium. His album contains 8 pieces; some improvised, others composed. An astounding result, according to the judges.
The audience can vote on their favorite artists here. On Friday, July 6th, the awards will be presented as a part of North Sea Round Town, the North Sea Jazz fringe festival, in jazz venue LantarenVenster, Rotterdam.
Luck Child
Fay Claassen
€ 19.95 BUY
GOLDBRUN
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet
€ 19.95 BUY
Big Barrel Organ
Bram Stadhouders
€ 17.95 BUY
Under the Surface
Joost Lijbaart / Sanne Rambags / Bram Stadhouders
€ 19.95 BUY
Let There Be Life, Love and Laughter
Eric Ineke
€ 18.95 BUY
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