Greg Presents Rogue Parade Ward - Stomping Off From Greenwood - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Greg Ward (born 1982) is rapidly emerging as one of the leading virtuoso saxophone players of his generation, with a unique versatility in a wide variety of styles including Modern Jazz, Classical and African Music. Ward was recently featured in Downbeat Magazine and both the New York Times and Time Out have hailed him as one of brightest leading lights in Jazz. Ward grew up in a musical household singing in gospel groups as a child before the discovery of Charlie Parker led him to dedicate his life to music. Phonic Juggernaut is just that, it will grab you by the ears and not let go.

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.

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