• • • All tunes are originals except Ballad of Hix Blewitt by the amazing and most underrated George Russell (who just passed, leaving us with enough music for the next millenium), Barcelona by Mark Turner and Can It Be Done by Wilson 'Willie Tee' Turbinton • • • Merry-Go-Round, K.K. (dedicated to the memory of the great Kenny Kirkland) and Eight Seasons in One Summer are from the new album entitled Eight Fragments Of Summer featuring Jérôme Sabbagh (tenor sax), Joe Sanders (bass) and Damion Reid (drums). It is the first one to be released on my own new label 88TREES • • • 257 Church St. and Ballad of Hix Blewitt are from the Blowing Trio new album The Thing To Share (Cristal Records 2007) featuring Olivier Zanot on alto sax, David El-Malek on tenor sax and special guest Laurence Allison on vocal • • • Spinnin' and The Flip-Flopper are from my trio album Spinnin' (88TREES 2005) featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Otis Brown III on drums • • • I Dare You is from the album Like A Tree In The City (88TREES/Sunnyside 2003) featuring Jérôme Sabbagh on tenor, Brandon Owens on bass and Damion Reid on drums. Barcelona is a bonus track (not featured on the album) • • • The song Can It Be Done is from the Weather Report album Domino Theory and was originally sung by Carl Anderson. This arrangement - featuring the Blowing Trio and the great David Linx - is a tribute to the late Joe Zawinul who will always shine as one of the most inspiring figure of this art form • • •
Influences
I'm influenced by a wide range of musicians and music and will try and name a few : Thelonious S. Monk, Herbie Hanckock, Art Tatum, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Bruce Barth, Wynton Kelly, Brad Mehldau, Billy Strayhorn, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Childs, Mal Waldron, Larry Goldings, Kenny Barron, Lennie Tristano, Joe Zawinul, Red Garland, Duke Ellington, Cedar Walton, Sonny Clark, Ethan Iverson, Paul Bley, Bud Powell, Keith Jarrett, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Hank Jones, Randy Weston, Oscar Peterson, Edward Simon, Phineas Newborn, Kenny Drew, Ellis Marsalis, Fred Hersch, Geri Allen, Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Roberts, Mulgrew Miller, Vijay Iyer, Gonzalo Rublcaba, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Charie Parker, Myron Walden, Lee Konitz, Wayne Shorter, Marc Turner, Chris Cheek, Sam Rivers, Miguel Zenon, Eddie Harris, Joe Hendreson, Bill McHenry, Sonny Rollins, Joshua Redman, Cannonball Adderley, Eric Dolphy, Stan Getz, Joe Lovano, Ornette Coleman, Steve Coleman, J.D.Allen, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Paul Gonzalves, Rolland Kirk, David Biney, Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Lester Young, Jackie McClean, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Blue Mitchell, Woody Shaw, Thad Jones, Tom Harrell, Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Chet Baker, Clark Terry, Booker Little, Ed Blackwell, Sean Rickman, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Philly Jo Jones, Art Taylor, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Joe Chambers, Brian Blade, John Hollenbeck, Jeff Tain Watts, Damion Reid, Billy Higgins, Jeff Ballard, Sam Woodyard, Eric Harland, Greg Hutchison, Paul Motion, Charlie Haden, Scott Lafaro, Ben Street, Bob Hurst, Reginal Veal, Reid Anderson, Dave Holland, Anthony Tidd, Chris McBride, Larry Grenadier, Chris Lightcap, Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scoffield, Jim Hall, Bill Frisell, Grant Green, Ben Monder, Pat Metheny, Guillermo Klein, Rebecca Martin, Shirley Horn, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Elis Regina, Joni Mitchell, Mark Murphy, Frank Sinatra, Dina Washington, Nat King Cole, Kate Mc Garry, Billie Holliday, Bobby Hutcherson, Common, Earth Wind & Fire, The Beatles, RadioHead, Quite Sane, Bjork, Gil Evans, Maria Schneider, Mickael Brecker, Caetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, Joyce, Bebo Valdes, Maraca, Chaka Khan, Prince, Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report, James Brown, Leo Ferre, Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Lewis Taylor, Massive Attack, Meshel Ndegeocello, A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip, Common, Outkast, Nick Drake, Rufus Wainwright, Curtis Mayfield, Sly and The Family Stones, Shuggie Otis, Talvin Singh, The Fugees, The Roots, The Claudia Quintet, Take 6, Nittin Shawney, Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Maurice Durufle, Jean Sebastien Bach, W.A.Mozart, Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Rachmanninoff, Glen Gould, Samson Francois,
Sounds Like
THE THING TO SHARE recording sessions (September 2006)
The Thing To Share
CONCERT AT THE PARIS JAZZ FESTIVAL
w/ the MIGUEL ZENON 4tet in Poland (subing for the great Luis Perdomo)
THE AMAZING MARCUS ROBERTS (one of my favorite piano player of all time).
George Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue
Keys player Henry Hey's Brilliant make over. How to make something beautiful out of the dumbiest shit ever. I love that stuff !!
As a tribute to the great George Russell who just passed, here's Stratusphunk with Bill Evans on piano, Art Farmer, trumpet, Jimmy Cleveland, trombone, Gene Quill, alto, Ed Thigpen, drums. So happening....
The music is amazing and never felt so appropriate... There's still a long way to go but progress is definitively being made thanks to people like these incredible musicians...
Gabriel Kahane is KILLING ! Check out his album. Pure magic. Very fresh and creative.
Beautiful arrangement. Killing band and killing sound.
Thanks for the comment and the add, I think you get a amazing future in front of you with your music, because you have a amazing, beautiful and wonderful song voice and you have real good and amazing songs and I wish you all the best with your music and your future with music in years forward:) You get have a wonderful and lovely weekend:)
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