The Suzanne Davis Quartet

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15 Minutes of Fame Take 1

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Released: Jan 1, 2004

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15 Minutes of Fame Take 1
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As the Stream Flows
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Bopmania
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Genre: Jazz / Nu-Jazz
Location Boston, Massachusetts, US
Profile Views: 14797
Last Login: 1/17/2012
Member Since 7/14/2006
Website http://suzjazz.com
Record Label AsIf! records
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.. The music you hear on this page comes from two sources: "15 Minutes of Fame" and "As the Stream Flows" are on my trio CD "A High Tolerance for the Truth," which features Garth Stevenson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. They are former Berklee students now making a name for themselves in New York. "Bopmania" is from my last quartet CD, "Hymn to Freedom," with Masa Kamaguchi on bass, Phil Grenadier on trumpet, and Joe Hunt on drums. The Suzanne Davis Quartet appears in various incarnations as a quartet, trio, or duo, depending on the circumstances. The core band meets once a week at my house for a session. It is a musical laboratory in which we develop vaccines against the disease of living in contemporary American society. This is the music I have always wanted to play but could not on my regular gig for 19 years at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. There, if you played in an odd meter, and people suddenly realized they couldn't tap their feet to it, or if you messed with the harmony so they no longer recognized the tune, you got fired. My first jazz piano teacher, the great Charlie Banacos, told me a long time ago that I would get fired from my gig "when you're a really great player--that's how you'll know." So now, if I'm not a really great player, I am at least an original player, an accomplished player, and if the boozed-up hotel lounge crowd can't make sense of my take on the standards, then too bad! I wanted to play music that could be like a swarm of angry bees if necessary. So I began to do that after I was fired from my hotel gig in 2004 after 19 years. It was time. In fall of 2007 I played in Paris, France. As of this writing (July 2009) I am back in Paris, performing at bab-ilo and the Mortefontaine Jazz Festival with Jerome Fouquet. Check out the video link to "Fifteen Minutes of Fame at l'Entrepôt" in Paris. The French musicians who played with me were fantastic! Jerome is playing trumpet. My group isn't really about me. It's a conversation that never ends, which is what all great music should be. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....
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..Current Personnel......Phil Grenadier, trumpet..Suzanne Davis, piano..Will Slater, bass..Dave Fox, drums.. .. .. Other personnel: Bruno Raberg, bass Garth Stevenson, bass Joe Hunt, drums Karen Kocharyan, drums Sergei Ioannisyan, drums
Influences
Herbie, Bill, Miles, Trane, Monk, Mingus, Oscar, Keith, Brad et al.
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Nothing you've ever heard before.

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Unfortunately we will have to force most rich people and corporations to do the right thing and pay their fair share.

Support the Buffett Rule | Elizabeth Warren for Massachusetts

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We need the Buffett Rule, but Senator Scott Brown won't stop protecting millionaires. Join thousands of supporters and sign Elizabeth Warren's petition today.

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Yesterday

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Can you believe this? Birth control isn't controversial even to most Catholic women, who use it.

Birth control under attack, again.

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Birth control is a basic form of healthcare for women. And we can't let a small but influential group of men pressure President Obama to make a decision that would have a tremendous impact on the health and wellbeing of millions of women.

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Now, who has the guts to quit FB? I'm considering it.

One Thing About Facebook We Don't 'Like'

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Et tu, Facebook?

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2 days ago

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They get away with murder. Don't let them.

PETITION: Tell Eric Cantor not to water down the STOCK Act

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The vote on the STOCK Act is less than 24 hours away. Sign our petition right now telling Eric Cantor not to water down a bill banning insider training for Members of Congress.

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3 days ago

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Our pressure worked to get that right-wing ideologue to resign! Keep the pressure on Komen!

Ultraviolet | Komen: We need you to fund Planned Parenthood for the long haul

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Karen Handel is gone but Komen for the Cure has deliberately left the door open to cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood next year. They need to know that millions of us are demanding they commit to funding Planned Parenthood in the future.

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