Christopher Orchestra Zuar - Musings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Icasiano's drumming harnesses shocking power and does strange things to your perception of time and space. - Dave Segal, The Stranger. Filipino-American percussionist and composer Christopher Icasiano presents his debut solo work InchProvinces,Inch two suites that explore the complexity of cultural identity and community as a second generation immigrant in Seattle. Composed predominantly on the drum set, InchProvincesInch virtuosic rhythmic patterns evoke melodies over long cyclical phrases, while a rich color palette provided by keyboards and percussion fill out the soundscape. Added field recordings taken from Icasiano's first ancestral trip to the Philippines are blended in, transporting the listener to a world that is foreign yet familiar. Christopher's lifelong study of jazz, his love of 90's R&B and folk music, and his 12-year collaboration in the experimental drum and saxophone duo InchBad Luck,Inch make InchProvincesInch a unique intersection of the avant-garde and the mainstream - always compelling, always challenging.

(5% DISCOUNT THRU 8-24-12) As a follow-up to their lauded duo recording, InchWe Couldn't Agree More,Inch soprano saxophonist Brent Jensen and pianist Bill Anschell decided to enhance their tonal palette, eliciting help from bassist Chris Symer, as they explore a set of jazz standards with an uninhibited, free-wheeling interplay. Reminiscent of the great duo and trio recordings of Lee Konitz, Jimmy Giuffre and the like, their in-the-moment creations are singular and timeless. Inch... between the fertile minds of Bill Anschell and Brent Jensen... this is more than chemistry; it's ESP... Inch - Harvey Siders, JazzTimes.

10 tracks from the Houston-based, Cream/Jefferson Airplane-style band that started out as United Gas in 1968 - this is the only authorized recording made from guitarist Richard Avitts' & bassist Doug Walden's original master tapes.