Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet - Left Coastin - VINYL LP

45rpm 180g Vinyl LP!Mastered by Steve Hoffman & Bob Attiyeh!Lacquers Cut by Bernie Grundman!Executive producer Lucile GriederSophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet rehearsed and performed some of these tunes before our concert and recording but many are the first time through; the quartet discussed the tunes and who would take what solo in which order but without rehearsal. I wanted the intensity of raw improvisation. This is possible when superb musicians tackle new material together, listening carefully to each other and playing as a single organism. Right before we recorded For Sebastian, for example, I played the opening of Variation 25 from Bach's Goldberg Variations on the piano. Misha led the quartet's improvisation from there. Music cannot get fresher than this.- Bob Attiyeh, producer Album Tracks 1. Bicycles 2. Los Barriles 3. Blue Corn Moon 4. For Sebastian 5. Sketches of a Melancholy Bass 6. Simpler Times

Album Tracks 1. Pi He 2. No. 1 in E Major Moderato 3. No. 2 in B minor Maestoso 4. No. 3 in a Minor Quasi Allegro 5. Andantino, Cantabile - Lento - Allegretto, Ma Non Troppo - Andantino

Before ALL OF THIS Connections needed... Cool Change. Then ALL OF THIS happened, things slowed down, things got weird, the world split in half, things like this should never happen. Now more than ever we need... Cool Change. Before and during ALL OF THIS, Connections assembled to make Cool Change, their sixth LP, with new member JP Herrmann at his studio, the long-revered Center for Japanese Helium. The balance held. Cool Change is being released in the last year of the first decade of Connections. Why shouldn't it be full of brighter, sharper, hooks of suburban pop? Hyper-regional and universal? These songs want basements, and grandstands, and the occasional festival - once ALL OF THIS is good. Those songs were written as an exercise as a breakup album though there was no relationship currently active to break up. A fantasy of a life not currently being lived or necessarily wanted. Good or bad. Post-ALL OF THIS malaise. Connections are in perpetual motion (there's more where this came from), but the moment calls for Cool Change. Listen to the moment. Cool Change. Album Tracks 1. In Space 2. California Raisin 3. Slow Ride 4. Lorraine 5. Steppin' Out 6. I Confess 7. It's a Start 8. Bird Has Flown 9. Vacationland 10. Let Me Eat Cake 11. Unsolved Mysteries 12. You Are All You Need