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Quick Hits

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Mark Stryker reviewed Adam Rudolph’s two new discs on his own Meta Records imprint in the Detroit Free Press.

NPR Music streamed The Nels Cline Singers new Cryptogramophone 2-CD release Initiate in its entirety for their First Listen series (audio no longer available as release date has passed). And we have a Tiny Desk Concert with the Singers planned for July.

NPR Music will also stream the new Claudia Quintet CD on Cuneiform, Royal Toast, in it’s entirety from May 10-18 (link coming soon).

Nate Chinen enthusiastically reviewed Jacky Terrasson’s first trio album in a dozen years, Push (Concord Jazz), in last Monday’s New York Times’ Critics Choice: New CDs.

Ben Ratliff reviews the latest Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things record Stories and Negotiations (482 Music) in the Sunday New York Times Arts & Leisure Playlist.

And we’ve been on a roll with All Music Guide – reviewing Adam Rudolph & Yusef Lateef’s, Towards the Unknown, The Nels Cline Singers‘ Initiate, The Claudia Quintet’s forthcoming release, Royal Toast, Jacky Terrasson’s Push, Allison Miller’s BOOM TIC BOOM, Steve Colson Trio’s The Untarnished Dream, Thomas Savy’s French Suite and Sam Sadigursky’s Words Project III: Miniatures. Kudos to Thom Jurek and Michael G. Nastos for all those reviews.

I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other noteworthy things, but I wanted to keep this short and sweet. See the client pages for more placements.

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Drummer Mike Reed Completes People, Places & Things Trilogy With “Stories & Negotiations” (482 Music) Feat. Jeb Bishop, Art Hoyle, Julian Priester, Ira Sullivan

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things Latest Recording, Stories and Negotiations,
featuring Art Hoyle, Julian Priester & Ira Sullivan

Stories & Negotiations is Third Installment
In A Trilogy of Recordings Devoted to the Remarkable Period of 1954-1960 Chicago Jazz,
And Its Relation to Chicago Jazz Today

Release Date: April 20, 2010
Catalog #482-1070


Recorded live in Chicago’s Millennium Park in Summer 2008, Stories and Negotiations is the latest vibrant installment in drummer/composer Mike Reed’s People, Places and Things project. Commissioned by The Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Made in Chicago series, it completes a trilogy of recordings devoted to a remarkable – but often overlooked – era in Chicago music: the years between 1954 and 1960, when the jam-session culture of the city’s hard bop scene began to seed the collective avant-garde of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and everything that followed.
Reed convened his working quartet, which features saxophonist Greg Ward, tenor saxophonist Tim Haldeman and bassist Jason Roebke, and invited frequent guest trombonist Jeb Bishop back to the bandstand. But for this album, he also solicited the horns of three jazz masters whose playing and personalities defined the late ‘50s in Chicago: trumpeter Art Hoyle, trombonist Julian Priester and saxophonist Ira Sullivan. The ensemble engages a set of vintage tunes – including Priester’s “Urnack,” John Jenkins’ “Song of a Star,” Clifford Jordan’s “Lost and Found,” Wilbur Campbell’s “Wilbur’s Tune,” and Sun Ra’s “El is a Sound of Joy” – in new arrangements, as well as original pieces composed by Reed and Ward and dedicated to each of their honored guests.
“Priester probably has the largest accomplishments as a sideman, he’s on a zillion records,” Reed says of the 74-year-old trombonist, who was (along with trumpet and flugelhorn player Hoyle) part of Sun Ra’s Chicago-based big bands of the mid-to-late 1950s, and has played with everyone from Duke Ellington to Sunn O))). Back in the day, now 78-year-old tenor saxophonist Sullivan “was maybe the biggest name, recording dates in 1956-57 as a leader, being asked to be in the Jazz Messengers, being asked to do things with Miles and turning it down. He’s incredibly important.” Hoyle, who is in his mid-70s, took an opposite track. “He was in the Sun Ra band, the Lionel Hampton band, but by the mid-‘60s he said, ‘I’m gonna stay in Chicago and be a studio musician, a working club musician.’ He was one of the musicians who broke the color barrier for the CBS Orchestra.”
Shaped by Reed’s powerfully organic concept for the band, the concert versions of older material are instantly distinct from their original iterations. “We were trying to really figure out how to bring some modern edges to this old music,” the drummer says. “Obviously, the idea of there being some kind of chordal instrument or harmony is out, so we’ve jumped from 1956 to 1966. There’s more of an Ornette-ish influence. Structure-wise, some of the music is rewritten. Not so much on the octet stuff, where we’re faithful to the material but definitely not in form. We’d move things around because we’d want the arrangements to work in a different way: maybe there’s a more dramatic build up, or we’d get away from the 32-bar form. We recreated forms, completely adding something that is not a piece of the tune at all.”
A man for all seasons, Reed is an important player in Chicago’s eclectic, genre-blurring music scene. He also leads the improvising quintet Loose Assembly and has recorded a series of experimental duets with several of other luminaries such as Nicole Mitchell and Jim Baker. As an organizer and promoter, his marquee gig is booking the annual Pitchfork Music Festival, the most open-eared indie-rock conclave in the United States.
With that kind of attitude, Stories and Negotiations could never be conceived as some predictable old tribute record. Reed composed the originals not with the idea of emulating hard bop, because he’s not that kind of a writer. Instead, he notes, there might be “a nebulous building into time, and some points where there’s not a meter that happens until someone wants to bring in the beginning of the tune. It was fresh for us, and a challenge for those guys to deal with something a little bit different.”
Even though the generations span a half-century of Chicago jazz, the chemistry is abundantly evident. As jazz writer Larry Kart observes in his liner notes, listeners can hear this displayed in endless facets. Among them, he cites “Hoyle’s story-telling taste for oblique  quotation (a sequin from the dress of ‘Satin Doll’ on his ‘Third Option’ solo, fragments from ‘Moody’s Mood for Love’ and ‘Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho’ on ‘Door #1,’ ‘Little Rootie Tootie’ on ‘Lost and Found’)…the orchestral contrast between Bishop’s earthy-burry tone and his forging-ever-onward lines and Priester’s otherworldly airiness of timbre and his pensive agility. Sullivan’s deep, warm swing probably goes without saying, but listen to the commitment he brings to his ensemble work on ‘Song of a Star’ (when he, Hoyle, and Priester sweep in beneath Bishop, Ward, and Haldeman) and ‘El is a Sound of Joy.’”
“The main connection that unifies the players is the sense of vitality in the music,” Reed says, pulling all the elements into a perspective that serves him well as the current Vice-Chair of the AACM. “The hard bop sound of the ‘50s time period was as cutting edge as anything that we’re working on today. Trying to reach that sense of edgy performance is what brings everyone together. Stylistic ideas and background may differ, but the common search for creativity is common.”
RELEASE DATE: April 20, 2010
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For more information contact:
Matt Merewitz
215-629-6155
matt@fullyaltered.com
Mike Lintner
482 Music
MikeL@482music.com

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Winter/Spring 2010 Release Schedule

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

JANUARY

January 12
Dave Rempis & Frank Rosaly – Cyrillic (482 Music)
(saxophone & drums duo)

January 19
Colorlist – A Square White Lie (482 Music)
(Chicago minimalist electronic duo; 180-gram vinyl or download only – no CDs)

January 26
Greg Burk Quartet – Many Worlds (482 Music)
(new recording from 482 Music stalwart; American pianist based in Italy)

Sam Sadigursky – The Words Project III: Miniatures (New Amsterdam Records)
(poetry by Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Léon de Greiff, Maxim Gorky, Fernando Pessoa + ensemble featuring vocalists Michael Leonhart, Heather Masse, Christine Correa, Jamie Leonhart, Monika Heidemann, Sunny Kim, Sadigursky + more)

FEBRUARY

February 02
Steve Colson Trio – The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx Records)
(featuring Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, Iqua Colson)

MARCH

March 19
Thomas Savy – French Suite (Plus Loin Music)
(bass clarinet-led trio recording featuring Scott Colley & Bill Stewart)

March 26
Allison Miller – BOOM TIC BOOM (Foxhaven Records)
(featuring Myra Melford, Todd Sickafoose + special guest Jenny Scheinman)

APRIL

April 13
Nels Cline Singers – Initiate (Cryptogramophone Records)
(Disc 1: Studio; Disc 2: Live; featuring Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff + special guests David Witham, Yuka Honda, Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich; engineered by Ron Saint Germain)

April 27
Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things – Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
(3rd installment of trilogy of recordings devoted to the remarkable, but often overlooked period of 1954-1960 in Chicago jazz; featuring Greg Ward, Tim Haldeman, Jason Roebke)

MAY

May 04
Jason Ajemian’s Daydream Full Lifestyles – Protest Heaven (482 Music)
(featuring Tony Malaby, Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Chad Taylor)

Other Upcoming Projects

- several recordings on the Finnish label TUM Records including Juhani Aaltonen, Kalle Kalima & K-18, Billy Bang Quintet, FAB Trio, Andrew Cyrille’s Hatian Fascination + many more (March-June)

- a new recording by drummer/composer Scott Amendola (one featuring guitarist Jeff Parker) to be released on his own label (April/May)

- a live recording by alto saxophonist Pete Robbins’ sILENT Z on his new label Hate Laugh Music (May)

- a new recording by the trumpeter/composer/arranger/bandleader David Weiss’s Point of Departure Quintet (featuring JD Allen, Nir Felder, Luques Curtis, Jamire Williams) to be released on Sunnyside Records

- an electro-jazz record by trumpeter Taylor Haskins’ Recombination (featuring Henry Hey, Ben Monder, Todd Sickafoose & Nate Smith) to be released on Nineteen-Eight Records (Summer or Fall 2010)

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Fully Altered Media Client Release Schedule **Summer & Fall 2009**

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

August

Ben Perowsky Quartet – Esopus Opus (Skirl) – August 11
w/ Perowsky (drums), Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), Drew Gress (bass), Ted Reichman (accordion, keyboards)

The Waitiki 7 – Adventures in Paradise (Pass Out Records) – August 18
w/ Zaccai Curtis (piano), Tim Mayer (saxes, flutes), Randy Wong (bass), Lopaka Colón (birdcalls, percussion), Jim Benoit (vibes), Helen Liu (violin), Abe Lagrimas, Jr. (drums, vibes, percussion) + special guest Mike Dease (trombone)

Stefon Harris & Blackout – Urbanus (Concord Jazz) – August 25
w/ Harris (vibraphone, marimba), Marc Cary (keyboards, piano, effects), Ben Willams (bass), Casey Benjamin (alto sax, vocoder), Terreon Gully (drums)

Rez Abbasi – Things to Come (Sunnyside) – August 25
w/ Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto sax), Vijay Iyer (piano), Dan Weiss (drums), Johannes Weidenmuller (bass) + Kiran Ahluwalia (Hindustani vocals), Mike Block (cello)

September

James Weidman – Three Worlds (Inner Circle Music) – Sept. 15
w/ Marty Ehrlich (alto sax, clarinet), Ray Anderson (trombone), Jay Hoggard (vibraphone), Brad Jones (bass), Francisco Mela (drums)

Benny Reid - Escaping Shadows (Concord Jazz) – Sept. 15
w/ Richard Padrón (guitar), Jeff Taylor (wordless vocals), Ryan Fitch (percussion), Pablo Vergara (piano), Dan Loomis (bass), Kenny Grohowski (drums)

Digital Primitives – Hum, Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch Records) – Sept. 22
w/ Assif Tsahar (tenor sax, percussion), Cooper-Moore (percussion, diddley-bo, voice), Chad Taylor (drums, percussion)

Moodswing Orchestra – Moodswing Orchestra (El Destructo Records/The Royal Potato Family) – Sept. 29
w/ Ben Perowsky (leader, drums bells, percussion, voice), Glenn Patscha (keyboards, pianos, voice), Markus Miller (turntables, electronics); Special Guests: Oren Bloedow (bass, voice) and Jennifer Charles (voice) of Elysian Fields, Marcus Rojas (tuba, voice), Doug Wieselman (reeds), Steven Bernstein (trumpet), Pamela Kurstin (theremin), Miho Hatori (voice) of Cibo Matto, Elyas Khan (voice), Joan Wasser (voice) of Joan As Policewoman, Bebel Gilberto (voice)

Ahleuchatistas – Of The Body Prone (Tzadik) – Sept. 29
Power Trio w/ Shane Perlowin (guitar), Derek Poteat (bass), Ryan Oslance (drums)

Tyshawn Sorey – Koan (482 Music) – Sept. 29
Trio w/ Thomas Morgan (bass, guitar); Todd Neufeld (guitar)

October

Jon Irabagon – The Observer (Concord Jazz) – Oct. 6
w/ Kenny Barron (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), Victor Lewis (drums) + special guests Nicholas Payton (trumpet), Bertha Hope (piano)

Linda Oh – Entry (self-released) – Oct. 6
Trio w/ Oh (bass), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Obed Calvaire (drums)

Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore – Three Less Than Between (Clean Feed) – October 6
Trio w/ Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Jason Roebke (bass), Mike Pride (drums)

Jason Stein – In Exchange for A Process (Leo Records) – October 6
solo bass clarinet

Vijay Iyer Trio – Historicity (ACT Music) -  October 13
Trio w/ Marcus Gilmore (drums) and Stephan Crump (bass)

Ben Allison - Think Free (Palmetto) – October 13
Quintet w/ Jenny Scheinman, Shane Endsley, Steve Cardenas and Rudy Royston

Chad Taylor -  Circle Down (482 Music) – October 20
Trio w/ Angelica Sanchez and Chris Lightcap

Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things – About Us (482 Music) – October 27
Quintet w/ Tim Haldeman (t. sax, perc., piano), Mike Reed (drums, piano), Jason Roebke (bass, perc., piano), Greg Ward (alto sax, perc., piano) – 2nd part of a trilogy


To request any of these recordings, please contact Matt Merewitz (matt@fullyaltered.com) or Stephen Buono (stephen@fullyaltered.com) or call 215-629-6155.

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