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Basement Blues

John Stowell

Basement Blues

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Origin Records
UPC: 0805558271724
Catnr: ORIGIN 82717
Release date: 14 October 2016
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Origin Records
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0805558271724
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ORIGIN 82717
Release date
14 October 2016
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After a decade of collaboration, master guitarist John Stowell and Bay­Area saxophonist Michael Zilber along with the dynamic bass/drum duo of John Shifflet and Jason Lewis, have developed a sound widely hailed as empathetic, intuitive and conversational. For their third Origin release, they offer another set of melodic and reflective modern jazz, drawing equally from modern swing, post-bop and their deep life experiences. "...an intimate quartet affair, marked by the kind of soulful, instinctual interplay that fans have come to expect." ­ JazzTimes.
Nach zehnjährigen Zusammenarbeit haben der Gitarrist John Stowell und der BayArea-Saxophonist Michael Zilber zusammen mit dem Bass/ Drum-Duo von John Shifflet und Jason Lewis einen Klang entwickelt, der als einfühlsam, intuitiv und konversationsbegeistert gilt. Auf ihrem dritten Album bei Origin präsentieren sie einen weiteren melodisch reflektierten modernen Jazz, der gleichermaßen von modernen Swing-, Post-Bop- und von tiefer Lebenserfahrung gezeichnet ist. "... eine intime Quartett-Affäre, gekennzeichnet durch die Art von gefühlvollem, instinktivem Zusammenspiel, das Fans erwartet haben." JazzTimes.

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John Stowell (guitar)

Roaming the world with his guitar over the last 40 years, John Stowell has developed significant musical relationships with numerous artists along the way, including Swedish guitarist Ulf Bandgren who has been a consistent and inspired partner for ten years. Last heard together on their 2012 duo recording, 'Throop,'  they gathered in Boston in the spring of 2016 to record this quartet set with the accomplished rhythm section of bassist Bruno Raberg and drummer Austin McMahon. The band's easy chemistry, engaging original compositions and rhythmic vitality make for a compelling and entertaining listen. 'John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn't use any of the cliches; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.' - Larry Coryell.
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Roaming the world with his guitar over the last 40 years, John Stowell has developed significant musical relationships with numerous artists along the way, including Swedish guitarist Ulf Bandgren who has been a consistent and inspired partner for ten years. Last heard together on their 2012 duo recording, "Throop," they gathered in Boston in the spring of 2016 to record this quartet set with the accomplished rhythm section of bassist Bruno Raberg and drummer Austin McMahon. The band's easy chemistry, engaging original compositions and rhythmic vitality make for a compelling and entertaining listen. "John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn't use any of the cliches; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator." - Larry Coryell.

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Michael Zilber (saxophone)

San Francisco Bay Area based saxophonist and composer Michael Zilber is described by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman as 'one of the best players and composers around anywhere. Period!' The Canadian-born ex-New Yorker has 10 albums to his name as a leader or co-leader. He has also performed or recorded with everyone from Liebman to Miroslav Vitous, Mike Clark, Dizzy Gillespie and Bob Berg, to name just a very few. Zilber co-led a band with drumming great Steve Smith for eight years, releasing the top 20 recording Reimagined: Jazz Standards, Volume 1 in 2003. For the past decade, he has teamed up with guitar virtuoso John Stowell, most recently on 2016's Basement Blues, which All About Jazz's Dan McClenaghan calls 'as...
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San Francisco Bay Area based saxophonist and composer Michael Zilber is described by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman as "one of the best players and composers around anywhere. Period!" The Canadian-born ex-New Yorker has 10 albums to his name as a leader or co-leader. He has also performed or recorded with everyone from Liebman to Miroslav Vitous, Mike Clark, Dizzy Gillespie and Bob Berg, to name just a very few.
Zilber co-led a band with drumming great Steve Smith for eight years, releasing the top 20 recording Reimagined: Jazz Standards, Volume 1 in 2003. For the past decade, he has teamed up with guitar virtuoso John Stowell, most recently on 2016's Basement Blues, which All About Jazz's Dan McClenaghan calls "as compelling and modernistic and compelling as any group out there," hailing Zilber as "soulful and flawless". Their 2015 Origin Records recording Live Beauty, made DownBeat magazine's "best of the year" list for 2015, as well as garnering rave reviews from JazzTimes and All About Jazz. This was a follow-up to the group's Shot Through With Beauty, which NPR jazz critic Andrew Gilbert picked as a top 10 record of the year. On Turning Ten: The Billy Collins Project, providing musical settings for the American Poet Laureate's poems, was hailed by famed jazz journalist Bill Milkowski as a "work of art of the highest order." Zilber currently leads his "Originals for the Originals" project, with an upcoming 2017 Origin album release of the same name to feature high-profile sidemen Dave Kikoski, James Genus and Clarence Penn. Zilber also leads a project called Weather Wayne, his electric jazz homage to Wayne Shorter, recently playing to a sold out house at SFJAZZ.
Zilber is also a sideman in various projects, playing in and writing for SF-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra. This highly acclaimed composers' big band recently released Cheap Rent, receiving 4.5 stars in DownBeat. In Berkeley, California, he leads the multiple DownBeat award-winning Jazzschool Jazz Workshop, as well as overseeing the composition program and teaching ensembles at the California Jazz Conservatory. Zilber holds a Doctorate in composition from NYU.

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