Greg Bandy - Lightning in a Bottle - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Berndt Egerbladh & His Quartet - But When I Started To Play! [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/10/2017

The English poet and artist William Blake wrote of the intentionality and originality in art as being demarcated by a Inchbounding line,Inch meaning that the more Inchsharp and distinctInch the boundaries of the piece are drawn, the more perfect the art. Pianist Greg Reitan took this idea to heart during an artist residency at composer Aaron Copland's home, Rock Hill, in Cortlandt Manor, New York, in the summer of 2019. Inspired by the seclusion, environment, and Copland's library, Reitan utilized his time at Rock Hill to create a blueprint for his new recording, The Bounding Line.Reitan has made a name for himself as a brilliant pianist and composer, writing and arranging for his trio and for film and television. Bassist Jack Daro and drummer Dean Koba have been integral to Reitan's musical world for nearly thirty years since they met while studying at the University of Southern California. Their long-standing collaboration has made the trio a cohesive unit comfortable with any material that Reitan creates.As a composer, Reitan has an appreciation for the work and genius of Aaron Copland. He was honored to have been awarded a residency that enabled him to live and work at Copland's Rock Hill. The midcentury modern house served as Copland's home from 1960 until his passing in 1990. The time Reitan and his wife spent at Rock Hill allowed him to find inspiration in the secluded environment that Copland regarded as Inchmy hideaway, my solitude.Inch The Copland House Foundation took care of the couple's needs so that Reitan could focus on composing. In the evenings, Reitan would investigate Copland's ample library, studying scores and reading books.The time spent at Rock Hill resulted in the sketches of the pieces that are heard on The Bounding Line. The residency provided Reitan an opportunity to refine his work and to hone these compositions under Blake's ethos of stron

With new compositions by Seattle guitarist, Greg Ruby, and three never before recorded compositions from 1924 by Seattle jazz pioneer, Frank D. Waldron, Washington Hall Stomp brings together an all-star line-up of musicians from New York, New Orleans and Seattle. In 2014, Ruby received funding from King County's 4Culture to create new compositions to be debuted at Seattle's historic, Washington Hall - the first venue in which a Seattle based jazz band ever performed (1918). Ruby's research led him to the music of Frank D. Waldron, a - saxophonist, cornet player, composer, bandleader and teacher considered one of the most important figures in early Seattle jazz but who never recorded. Throughout the 1920's, Waldron fronted the Odean Jazz Orchestra at the Nanking Café in downtown Seattle, leading a racially integrated jazz band at a time when this was unheard of. Waldron went on to teach generations of Seattle's jazz stars including Quincy Jones and Bubby Catlett. For the first time ever, you can hear Waldron's compositions.