Out To Dinner – Different Flavors
Listeners everywhere are invited to join the fun with the
Out To Dinner band and audition a variety of their Different Flavors. Our
trusty producer Marc Free continues on an ambitious course of cooking up a
visionary series of demand building releases. This latest project features a
musical menu of inspired presentations from a curated group with unique
instrumentation. It also prompts listeners to expand their sonic palettes to
include this adventurous exploration of the jazz genre. This engagingly
enjoyable album is a stellar quintet date featuring front line performances
from vibraphonist Behn Gillece, trombonist Michael Dease and saxophonist Tim
Green moving freely over the solid harmonic foundation of bassist Boris Kozlov
and the explosive metrics of drummer Rudy Royston. With the menu full of
Different Flavors, we are confident that the collaborative journey of Out To
Dinner will bring delight to the ears of every jazz fan and hopefully encourage
navigation steadily away from the known and familiar and towards the uncharted
depths of modern collective improvisation.
Michael Musillami / Rich Syracuse - Dig
Playscape Recordings is proud to release Dig - music
inspired by and dedicated to Bill Evans, a duo recording by veteran
guitarist/composer Michael Musillami and master bassist and co-leader Rich
Syracuse. This is the duo s third recording, following Of the Night - the music
of Wayne Shorter, released in 2016 and Bird Calls - the music of Charles
Mingus, released in 2017. After continually adding music composed or inspired
by Bill Evans to their live performance repertoire, Musillami and Syracuse felt
a strong desire to document an open and expansive vision of Evans often played
pieces. The duo, manipulating harmonic content, time and color wanted to put
their stamp on the music they had been listening to for 40+ years. In veteran
pianist Peter Madsen s liner notes, composed for this release, he writes, For
me the artistic expression of inner feelings through music reached a highpoint
with the playing of this genius poet of the piano! Bill Evans presence in the
jazz world through his improvisations and compositions has strongly affected
not only pianists but also musicians on all instruments who strive to follow in
his path of beauty, creativity and deep communication. The CD you are now
holding is a perfect example demonstrating how his influence has motivated two
great musicians of today to honor the great Bill Evans by using his
compositions and pieces he has made famous as vehicles for their creative
musical explorations! On this CD, brilliant guitarist Michael Musillami and
creative double bassist Rich Syracuse dig deep into standards like Blue in
Green, Nardis and All Blues as well as some not so famous masterpieces like 12
Tone Tune, Bill's Hit Tune and How My Heart Sings. The CD s second track,
Twelve Tone Tune takes the listener on an open-ended avant-romp that tugs on
the strings of convention, says Musillami. On Nardis, written by Miles Davis
and one of my favorite pieces, we deconstructed the song form to suit the
moment with unpredictable results
Kid Millions & Sarah Bernstein – Broken Fall
When Kid Millions and Sarah Bernstein conceptualized their
new album, they decided to move away from well-trodden improvisational
approaches and towards more transcendental, otherworldly sounds. Pulling
inspiration from disparate influences such as early liturgical music, Ornette
Coleman, Yoko Ono, masters of dub and drummer Milford Graves, they set out to
create a cyclical form of spontaneous thematic music. The result is driving and
expressive, with pieces of gem-like brevity placed alongside others of
sustained evolving intensity. The duo started playing together regularly in
2014. Their early performances were surprising, suggesting new avenues of
spontaneous composition. They gradually developed an approach that utilizes an
extreme range of dynamics and note density, from pin-drop violin pizzicato and
cymbal scraping to powerful electronics, wild vocalizations, and unrelenting drum
textures. 'Broken Fall' is their second album with 577 Records. This recording
is the first to include Sarah's poetry as lyrics. The text is barely
decipherable, intertwined musically with her otherwise wordless vocal
expression, yet the rhythm of the words and the meaning drives the temperament
of the album. "Broken Fall" is a huge step forward for the duo; an
album that fully captures their fluent musical relationship.
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