Sloan - Parallel Play - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Wild One - Heatwave [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 08/14/2015

One of the most successful Canadian bands of the last fifteen years, Sloan has now finished it's eigth studio album, NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT - the first on new US tag Yep Roc Records. Yet another Sloan serving of august and finely crafted rock, NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT is also thirty tracks long.

New York-based drummer/composer Greg Germann has spent the better part of the last 2 decades touring the world with Broadway shows, and then making his mark as a Telly Award winning film composer, utilizing his background in classical percussion and jazz to guide his hand. With encouragement from an important mentor, drummer Clarence Penn, Greg turned his attention to documenting a collection of his wide-ranging compositions for modern jazz quartet. With Penn producing, they pulled together a group of supreme improvisors including saxophonist Donny McCaslin, pianist Luis Perdomo and bassist Yasushi Nakamura to tackle Germann's rhythmically expansive & melodically rich works. Recorded in November of 2020, the compositions present a dynamic view of life during the Covid-19 pandemic. From the relentless post-bop opener, InchRush Hour,Inch to the reflective InchQuarantine,Inch Tales of Time is Germann's calling card for jazz fans worldwide.