Fat Tony - 10,000 Hours - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Storytelling isn't merely a vehicle for self-expression, it's a mode of transportation. A two-way mirror in which we process gilded dreams and grotesque nightmares, the transgression of cultural taboos and the upholding of ancient tradition. It's also the animating idea behind much of the greatest popular music ever made. Consider Exotica, the new album from Houston iconoclast, Fat Tony, the latest brilliant entry in that fabled tradition, what Outkast once described as Inchshooting game in the form of story rapping.Inch

Detroit-bred trumpeter & composer Anthony Stanco is a 5th generation Italian-American, steeped in the tenets of Black American Music blues, bebop, and the progressive fire that fuels modern jazz. In his sound, the guidance of Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, and Miles Davis, as well as his close mentors Marcus Belgrave and Rodney Whitaker, is evident and clearly celebated. Full of joyous, vibrant discoveries, InchStanco's TimeInch announces not only a trumpeter entering his primetime, but also suggests the idea of traveling back to New York's 52nd Street circa 1955, with fresh, fiery sounds billowing out of clubs, marking a monumental cultural revolution. Along with his quintet - guitarist Randy Napoleon, pianist Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker on bass and drummer Joe Farnsworth - Stanco deftly avoids the trap of repertory imitation and hero worship by imbuing his originals and arrangements with life, fire and relevancy. Inch... The emotional source of each of Stanco's tracks is always something incredible that speaks to places we've all been, a place we've all shared.Inch PARIS MOVE Album Tracks 1. Showtime 2. Stanco's Time 3. Hot House 4. If You Could See Me Now 5. Josie Rosie 6. Dig 7. Deep Time 8. Worth the Time 9. Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me 10. Minor Time 11. Ask Me Now 12. Now's the Time

This album was recorded on the front porches of notable bluesmen around the United States. Charlie Musselwhite, John Primer and Bob Corritore, John Nemeth and many more... in cities such as Memphis TN, San Jose CA, Anaheim CA, Chicago IL, and more