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Jazz
Recorded on August 31rst & September 1rst, 2009, SMALLS JAZZ CLUB, GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC.
Seamus Blake - Tenor Saxophone
Lage Lund - Guitar
Dave Kikoski - Piano
Matt Clohesy - Bass
Bill Stewart - Drums
Produced by: SPIKE WILNER
Mixed by: BEN RUBIN at House of Cha Cha
Engineered by: GLEN FORREST
Mastered by: GENE PAUL & JAMIE POLASKI
Cover design & photos: MICHELLE
Seamus Blake
New York based tenor sax player Seamus Blake is gaining increasing recognition as one of the finest and most creative young players emerging in jazz. His inclusion in the 1997 Downbeat Critics Poll as an artist deserving of wider recognition attests to this fact. Pat Metheny has described him as the best tenor player I've heard in a couple of years (JazzTimes April 1997). John Scofield, who hired him for his 'Quiet Band', calls him 'extraordinary, a total saxophonist'. He continues to tour with Scofield.
Born in England but raised in Vancouver, Canada, Blake was first asked to record at the age of 21 with drummer VICTOR LEWIS while Blake was still a student at Boston's prestigious Berklee College. Following his graduation, Blake moved to New York, where he rapidly established himself on the New York scene. At 32, Blake now has 4 releases on Criss Cross Records, including the 1995 premiere release of the 'BLOOMDADDIES' a 'funky, alternative grunge jazz' band featuring 2 electrified tenors, electric bass, vocals and 2 drums (Downbeat July1996). His latest for them entitled 'Echonomics' features Dave Kikowski and Victor lewis. A CD of originals entitled 'Stranger Things Have Happened' has also just been released on the Fresh Sound label with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jorge Rossy and Larry Grenadier. Blake is long standing member of the Mingus Big Band and is featured on their last three recordings for Dreyfuss. He continues to play and record with the Victor Lewis Quintet (Enja, Red), as well as with BILL STEWART and KEVIN HAYS (Blue Note Records). He has also recorded with FRANCO AMBROSETTI (Enja), MARK TURNER and BILLY DRUMMOND on Criss Cross. He placed 1st in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition in Feburary 2002. Since then he has been touring with the Dave Douglas septet and quintet. He has also been leading his own quartet with tours in the US and Europe.
Lage Lund
Guitarist Lage Lund was born in Norway. After failing to make it in the highly competitive snowplowing field in his hometown, Lage set a more realistic goal and pursued a career in jazz. This led him to Berklee college of music in Boston and the Juilliard school in New York, where he was the first electric guitarist in the history of the school.
Since then Lage has had the opportunity to work with Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Mulgrew Miller, Seamus Blake, Carmen Lundy, Aaron Parks, Marcus Strickland, the Mingus Band and others.
Lage won the Thelonious Monk international jazz competition in 2005 and was very happy about that, but wonders if it ruined his chance of ever winning the lottery.
He is currently a member of the David Sanchez Quartet, and Lage's latest record is of his working trio (with bassist Orlando Le Fleming and drummer Rodney Green ) playing standards. It has the remarkably creative title "Lage Lund Trio: Standards" and is available on iTunes and Amazon
His next release with a quintet playing original compositions will be out on Criss Cross Jazz in September 2008
Dave Kikoski
At a time when jazz has been to the far reaches of the musical universe and back, some would say that its all been played before and we're currently at a point in the cyclical nature of this art form when those with lesser talents are merely rewriting the past.
Possibly this is why innovation and individualism are so rare these days and why David Kikoski stands apart from the scores of pianists who currently make their home within the mainstream tradition.
Born in 1961, Dave was part of a musical family and given his first piano lessons at the age of six by his father. In his early teens he began working with jazz and rock groups and won "The New Jersey Allstate Jazz Competition ". After high school, Kikoski would head to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston where he earned a bachelor's degree in piano. While at school he had a steady trio gig and met Pat Metheny who sat in with the band. A few years later they would record a CD together with Roy Haynes.
In 1984, the pianist decided to try his hand in New York where it didn't take long for him to establish himself.
Drummer Roy Haynes would be the first to give Kikoski a break, leading to a productive association that lasts to this day.
During his first few years on the New York scene, the pianist took advantage of the Haynes gig to network with other musicians leading to a wealth of recording opportunities and touring with Randy Brecker, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Al Foster, Buster Williams and Bob Berg among others.
By 1989, Dave was ready to cut his first record as a leader.
"Presage" featured a high-octane trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Al Foster. His second outing "Persistant Dreams" was produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan fame featured a larger ensemble including Randy Brecker and Billy Hart.
During the early 90s, Kikoski not only kept busy playing frequent gigs with Roy Haynes, Randy Brecker and others but was also featured as a regular in the group of saxophonist Bob Berg and produced and arranged his CD "Another Standard" for Chick Corea's Stretch label. He freelanced and led his own groups at home and abroad.
In 1994, a contract with the short-lived Sony Epicure label produced the self-titled Dave Kikoski, a trio set that found the pianist in the company of bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Al Foster. Over the next few years, Kikoski would perform and record as a sideman with an enviable cast of jazz luminaries including John Scofield, Brian Lynch, Peter Erskine, Red Rodney, Ravi Coltrane, Chris Potter, Christian McBride, Joe Henderson, Joey Baron, Dave Holland, Mike Stern, Chick Corea, Toots Thielemans, Pat Metheny, Victor Lewis, Tom Harrell, Gary Thomas, Marcus Miller, the Mingus Big Band and Michael Brecker.
Since 1997, Kikoski has had a chance to further document his artistic growth in a series of releases for the Dutch Criss Cross label. " Inner Trust" from 1997, spotlighted the work of fellow Roy Haynes bandmate bassist Ed Howard (also on "Persistant Dreams") and drummer Leon Parker. "The Maze" reunited Dave with drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts as well as " Mingus Big Band " partner saxophonist Shamus Blake and Scott Colley on Bass.
His next release "Almost Twilight" offered the musical benefits that come with a working band, as Kikoski joined forces with bassist John Patitucci and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts for a week at "Sweet Basils" before cutting the CD.
In 2001 Roy Haynes invited Dave to join his new all-star lineup including Dave Hollland, Roy Hardgrove and Kenny Garrett to record and tour.
The CD received a Grammy nomination. They are still performing and the live shows often feature Nicholas Payton and Christian McBride as well..
Another project of Dave's with percussionist Brian Melvin entitled "BeatleJazz" topping the Gavin radio charts with both volumes. Among tours to Japan and Russia with his own trios, during the summer of 2001, Dave spent time touring with the Brecker Brothers' Acoustic Band.
The fall of 2001 Kikoski celebrated the release of his fourth set as a leader for Criss Cross. "Surf's Up " gives him space to romp through a diverse set of tunes covering everything from Brazilian sambas to pop classics by Frank Zappa and Brian Wilson.
In 2002 Dave toured Japan and recorded two CDs for the DIW label and another for Criss Cross entitled "Combinations". The summer festivals of 2003 were spent with the "Randy Brecker, Bill Evans Soul Bop Band with special guest Ronny Cuber".
In August Kikoski played the Mt.Fuji Jazz Festival with the "Brecker Brothers Band".
He continues to perform with a variety of different bands as well as his own projects.
The latest "BeatleJazz" (2004) "With a little help from our friends" includes guests Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker and John Scofield with electric keyboards and tablas. David's 2004 release " Details" features Bill Stewart on drums and Larry Grenadier on bass.
David Kikoski continues to foster his individualistic voice while exploring a wide variety of opportunities both as a leader and sideman. He especially wants to emphasize his compositions, further develop opportunities to perform with his own groups, and write for films. An affecting modernist, Kikoski distills the best in jazz and popular music and infuses every song with attention-getting brilliance.
Matt Clohesy
Matt Clohesy, Australian Bassist living in NYC, leftMelbourne in 2001. Since then, Matt has been performing and recording with artists including Geoffrey Keezer, Ingrid Jensen, Maria Schneider, Donny McCaslin, Joe Locke, Eric Alexander, Joel Frahm, Diego Urcola, Eric Person, Will Vinson, Lage Lund, Matt Shulman, Kendrick Scott, Gretchen Parlato, David Schnitter, Manuel Valera, Ernesto Simpson and Paulette McWilliams. Prior to moving to New York, Matt received a Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and worked with Australian artists including Dale Barlow, Mike Nock, Joe Chindamo, Vince Jones and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Bill Stewart
Stewart grew up in Des Moines, Iowa listening to his parents' jazz and rhythm and blues records without much exposure to live jazz in the then relatively isolated state of Iowa. The largely self-taught drummer began playing at the age of seven. While in high school, he played in a Top 40 cover band and the school orchestra, and went to a summer music camp at Stanford Jazz Workshop where he met jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie. After high school graduation, Stewart attended the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, playing in the jazz and marching bands as well as the orchestra. He then transferred to William Paterson University (then William Paterson College), where he played in ensembles directed by Rufus Reid, studied drums with Eliot Zigmund and Horacee Arnold and took composition lessons from Dave Samuels. The young drummer met future employer Joe Lovano while still in college (the two played duets in lieu of a drum lesson when Zigmund was away). He also made his first recordings, with saxophonist Scott Kreitzer, pianist Armen Donelian, while still in school, and with pianist Franck Amsallem (with Gary Peacock on bass) in 1990.
After college, Stewart moved to New York where he quickly built his reputation, first gaining wider recognition in John Scofield's quartet and in a trio with Larry Goldings and Peter Bernstein, which has become the longest running group Stewart has played with, having begun in 1989 and continuing to this day, however infrequently the group may be found in performance. Stewart's musical horizons expanded when legendary funk saxophonist Maceo Parker tapped the budding drummer upon seeing him with Larry Goldings at a regular gig at a club in Manhattan. Stewart worked with Parker from 1990 to 1991, touring and recording on three of Parker's albums. The association led to Stewart's memorable gig with the great James Brown, who told Stewart that there "Ain't no funk in Iowa!" upon learning the drummer's roots. Musical associations with Lee Konitz, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny and many other notable jazz musicians have followed.
As a drummer, Bill Stewart's playing is distinguished by its melodic focus, and its polyrhythmic, or layered, character. To say his playing is "melodic" means there is a sense in which one can "hum along" to his solos, as there is a clear sense of melodic construction. His improvisations favor the development and layering of motivic ideas over the raw generation of excitement or display of technical prowess. Stewart has great touch, or dynamic precision, so that his ideas are articulated with a pleasing exactness and clarity. He has also achieved a very high degree of independence of his limbs, so that not only the ride and the snare/toms, but also the bass drum and hi-hat, are free to participate as melodic "first-class citizens." His drumming bears the influence of various melodic drummers who preceded him, including Max Roach, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette and Al Foster.
As a composer, Bill Stewart is forward-looking, and seems not to want to repeat what others have already accomplished. In other words, his tunes have a bit of an avant-garde flavor. The melodies, harmonies, phrase lengths, and measure lengths are often altered so as not to conform too closely to traditional jazz language. Some of his tunes (such as "Mayberry") also feature a built-in "free blowing" section, surrounded by a composed "head" (in the case of "Mayberry", a parody of the theme song of the Andy Griffith Show.) The concept of "Mayberry" may have been borrowed from Stewart's long-time collaborator John Scofield, who has written many tunes of the same general shape.
Stewart has a considerable output as a leader, beginning with 1989's Think Before You Think, with bassist Dave Holland, pianist Marc Cohen, and saxophonist Joe Lovano, on which the drummer led a session of originals and standards, including one of his own compositions.
In his next outing as a leader, Stewart assembled trumpeter Eddie Henderson, saxophonist Lovano, pianist Bill Carrothers and bassist Larry Grenadier for an entire record of Stewart compositions, Snide Remarks, which was chosen as one of the top ten jazz CDs of the year by Peter Watrous of the New York Times.
The second Blue Note album to be released under Stewart's name was 1997's Telepathy, featuring Carrothers and Grenadier along with saxophonists Steve Wilson and Seamus Blake.
In 2005, the Bill Stewart Trio, with Kevin Hays and Larry Goldings, released Keynote Speakers. The ensemble is a twist on the usual organ-guitar-drum trio, where a second keyboard (variously piano, Fender Rhodes, and other keyboard instruments) is added to the organ-drum foundation.
Stewart's recordings all have a certain unique blend of playfulness and mystery propelled by his thoughtful drumming and equally melodic and rhythmic compositional style. Stewart has said that he thinks it very important to find an interesting combination of musicians whose abilities will complement each other and who will sound at home on the compositions slated for the given session.
Stewart recently completed a creative collaboration with the Avedis Zildjian Company in developing the Special Dry Complex Ride cymbal, which is meant to replicate the sound of an old K. Zildjian cymbal Stewart has had for a long time. Stewart says of the new cymbals, "[They] are very pretty, yet can be very nasty." |
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