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Jazz and Pop, Latin and Funk... While their sound is original and unmistakably their own, it is deeply rooted in the sounds of our time.First Circle began as an acoustic guitar duo. Michael Cosgrove and Larry Messer met by way of Seattle's premier Jazz Guitar instructor, Al Turay, with whom both studied for several years. Later came the freedom and energy of a rhythm section. Bassist Jeff Fiorini has played funk and fusion around Seattle for 20-plus years, including stints with smooth-jazz keyboard-meister Deems Tsutakawa. Drummer Marty Vadalabene settled in the area after years of touring in rock and Cajun bands including a long tenure with Doug Kershaw. First Circle's sound remains centered around the acoustic guitar. The all-instrumental arrangements of Larry and Michael's original tunes tend to have relaxed grooves and strike an elegant balance somewhere between the straight-ahead and smooth jazz worlds.As a quartet, First Circle has performed around Seattle for the past couple of years. Since the recent release of their self-titled first CD, the band has been actively expanding its geographical and musical horizons. First Circle Songs | 1. | Bonobo |
| 2. | Heitor's Bossa |
| 3. | Spice |
| 4. | Brazilian Sunrise |
| 5. | It Takes Two |
| 6. | Grey, Green and Blue |
| 7. | Make a Wish |
| 8. | Child's Play |
| 9. | Fly Away |
| 10. | Sometimes |
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Purchase First Circle CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Gerald Wilson Detroit CD (2009)
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Detroit comprises a six-composition suite commissioned for the 2009 thirtieth anniversary Detroit International Jazz Festival, played in the studio with musicians from composer/arranger Gerald Wilson's Los Angeles home or New York City area. Curiously, there are no Motor City-based players on the disc, but the themes are based in certain locales from the industrial Midwestern City that has fallen on hard economic times but played a pivotal role in the development of Wilson's highly developed skills as a composer, arranger, and bandleader. A quite spirited and energetic music is heard here from the 90-year-old Wilson, whose charm and wit would rival anyone ...
| | Miles Davis Kind Of Blue CD (1959) Bonus Track; Remastered
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| | Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues CD (2009)
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| | Armik Gypsy Flame CD (1995)
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| | Brian Bromberg It Is What It Is CD (2009)
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Brian Bromberg's fourth recording for the Artistry label, and first since they were acquired by the Mack Avenue label, is a fairly predictable program of contemporary jazz, commercial funk, and pop song covers, as well as uptown New York City R&B-type dance tunes that should appeal to the urban crowd. His prominent electric bass guitar always has a retro feel going back to Ralphe Armstrong, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Larry Graham, and James Jamerson, but retains a current-day feel that is still relevant, remaining skilled and precise as any bassist currently playing the amplified instrument. Many of these tracks include a horn section featuring Randy Brecker, Eric Marienthal, ...
| | Marc Copland Night Whispers New York Trio Recordings: Volume 3 CD (2009) (Import) Germany
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From Erroll Garner to Cecil Taylor to Bill Evans, and from Chick Corea to Thelonious Monk, a wide variety of acoustic jazz pianists have thrived in the time-honored piano trio setting (piano, bass, and drums) over the years. It's a setting that has never gone out of style in jazz, and it's a setting that has served acoustic pianist Marc Copland well in his New York Trio Recordings series. The lineup has varied from one volume to the next; on New York Trio Recordings, Vol. 3: Night Whispers, Copland is joined by bassist Drew Gress and drummer Bill Stewart (whereas he was joined by bassist Gary Peacock and Stewart on Vol. 1 and by Peacock and ...
| | Suzanna Sifter Flowers For You CD (1999)
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Suzanna Sifter is an assistant professor for piano at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Flowers for You is her first album as a leader. However, she is no stranger to the recording studio having worked with Tony Lada's progressive jazz group - - who returns the favor by appearing in this album-- Sarah Burrill, a R&B performer, and the duo Lauren Passarelli and Cindy Brown who specialize in art and folk rock. Sifter's experience in working in different genres holds her in good stead on this album. With a program made up mostly of her own compositions, Sifter's playing, and that of her cohorts, moves between lusty, exuberant, romantic, swinging, and often the intense and dissonant. Tenor saxman Dino Govoni, whose style and approach falls somewhere between John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, is the protagonist along with Sifter on the dissonant and intense. His wailing, sometimes shrill playing filled with runs and clever fingering is especially prominent on the first two tracks, "A Late Winter's Chill" and "October Leaves." The tension created by these two pieces is alleviated by Sifter's melodic, lilting delivery of the title tune "Flowers for You," where she works with just the rhythm section benefiting from fanciful bass work by Joshua Davis and drummer Casey Scheuerell. Sifter becomes absolutely romantic and Tatum-esque on Ray Noble's classic standard ...
| | Kem Karmel CD (2006)
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| | Diana Robinson Plays The Music Of Alec Wilder CD (2006)
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| | Dan Shull You Tell Me CD (2002)
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Dan Shull is a Performer/Producer/Writer who also records his eclectic mix of Smooth Jazz/R&B/Pop music at his recording studio, Wit's End, for his Indie Label, Earitation Records. Growing up in a musical family, Dan Shull began studying a wide range of instruments at a very early age. Influenced by the Soul/R&B/Pop and Jazz of the 60’s & 70’s Dan was composing and scoring for both his self & others in his early teens. By age 16 he was simultaneously playing Guitars, Bass, & Saxophone in numerous Rock, Soul & Jazz groups, including Alto Sax with the 16-PC Bob Haas Orchestra. Dan went on to study Theory & Composition at East Carolina University W/ Saxophone applied, and continued to play with Bob Haas on the weekends. In 1998 Dan was asked to help form the Fusion/Blues Trio Bone Daddy, for whom he played Bass Guitar. In ...
| | Cynthia Ballesteros What A Little Moonlight Can Do CD (2006)
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Cynthia Ballesteros was raised in a musical household in Montreal. Her father, an accordionist, immigrated to Canada from Spain. Cynthia's French-Canadian mother instilled in her a love for the 1940s and 50s big band music of Benny Goodman and Count Basie, and the vocal stylings of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. Classically trained, Ballesteros began studying at the prestigious McGill University Conservatory of Music at the young age of 17. Here, she crossed paths with renowned vocalist/pianist Ernie Nelson. While Ballesteros learned much in the classroom, her real education occurred on the bandstand as she and Nelson worked together around Montreal for the next five years. This ...
| | Jet Baker Coffee Shop CD (2002)
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| | Kitt Moran This Time It's Love CD (2003)
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| | Heroes & Madmen Natural Order Of Things CD (2008)
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