Fresh Sound Records & The Jazz Standard Present CD release party for
David Weiss' The Mirror
the follow-up CD by trumpeter David Weiss to his critically acclaimed debut recording, Breathing Room
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
7:30 & 9:30pm
At The Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street (Park/Lexington) 212-576-2232 http://www.jazzstandard.net =featuring=
David Weiss (trumpet); Myron Walden (alto); Marcus Strickland (tenor); Xavier Davis (piano); Dwayne Burno (bass); E.J. Strickland (drums)
Fresh Sound/New Talent recording artist David Weiss continues down his path of “stretching hard bops kind-of-unstretchable formula" (Jim Macnie, Village Voice) with the challenging follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut CD Breathing Room entitled The Mirror. Already an award-winning composer (the prestigious Chamber Music America Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project: New Works Creation and Presentation grant and the American Composers Forum's Jerome Composers Commissioning Program) and arranger (Down Beat Critics Poll, Rising Star Arranger), Weiss has recently honed his trumpet skills working in the bands of trumpet legends Freddie Hubbard, Tom Harrell and Charles Tolliver. Though he has gained invaluable experience and learned important lessons collaborating with and being on the bandstand with such legendary musicians, Weiss' biggest influence on his approach to The Mirror was the works of some his favorite filmmakers particularly the oeuvre of the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
****What the critics are saying.....****
“Now with The Mirror, he demonstrates that Breathing Room was no fluke as he serves up a programme marking him as one of the more cerebral yet visceral writers to arise in recent years. With an album that is heady in both senses of the word-intelligent and exhilarating-Weiss emerges as one of the finest artists to mine the post bop arena, with an ability to develop longer-form composition that is clearly indebted to Wayne Shorter. Not since Dave Douglas rose to prominence in the mid-'90s has a trumpet player come along with such a perfect combination of technical prowess, unerring instinct for captivating melody, harmony and counterpoint, and sheer emotional force. A masterpiece by any definition, The Mirror deserves a place high in most listeners' top ten lists for '04 for its ability to engage more than just the ears; Weiss' compositions are remarkably visual as well".
-John Kelman All About Jazz
“The compositions and especially the colourful, warm, often pedal-point punctuated arrangements show how rapidly Weiss is maturing. His writing may well be initially inspired by what Wayne Shorter was doing for Miles in the mid '60s, but it is totally contemporary in its expansion of that era's unfinished business. And his two scores for the larger line-up are exceptional. The outstanding work on this album is The Mirror which he dedicates to Tarkovsky. The emotional depth of the scoring and the solos make it really something special. So is the whole album. Watch for Weiss. He's a major new talent. One of my 2004 Top Three CDs".
-Tony Hall JazzWise Magazine
“Weiss writes tunes with evocative melodic ambivalence and veering surprises and hovering pedal points and metrical asymmetry, all qualities associated with the sensibility that Wayne Shorter brought to jazz. But Weiss does not repeat it, he expands upon it"
-Thomas Conrad Downbeat Magazine “Wayne Wayne Shorter's influence may be apparent in the charts and Freddie Hubbard's in the playing, but Weiss' craftsmanship and individuality in both areas lift his music out of retrograde movement. It is an indicator of his skill that his five compositions complement the Shorter compositions on the album. Weiss' writing suggests that a major composer/arranger may be developing"
-Doug Ramsey Jazz Times Magazine
David Weiss' The Mirror
the follow-up CD by trumpeter David Weiss to his critically acclaimed debut recording, Breathing Room
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
7:30 & 9:30pm
At The Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street (Park/Lexington) 212-576-2232 http://www.jazzstandard.net =featuring=
David Weiss (trumpet); Myron Walden (alto); Marcus Strickland (tenor); Xavier Davis (piano); Dwayne Burno (bass); E.J. Strickland (drums)
Fresh Sound/New Talent recording artist David Weiss continues down his path of “stretching hard bops kind-of-unstretchable formula" (Jim Macnie, Village Voice) with the challenging follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut CD Breathing Room entitled The Mirror. Already an award-winning composer (the prestigious Chamber Music America Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project: New Works Creation and Presentation grant and the American Composers Forum's Jerome Composers Commissioning Program) and arranger (Down Beat Critics Poll, Rising Star Arranger), Weiss has recently honed his trumpet skills working in the bands of trumpet legends Freddie Hubbard, Tom Harrell and Charles Tolliver. Though he has gained invaluable experience and learned important lessons collaborating with and being on the bandstand with such legendary musicians, Weiss' biggest influence on his approach to The Mirror was the works of some his favorite filmmakers particularly the oeuvre of the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
****What the critics are saying.....****
“Now with The Mirror, he demonstrates that Breathing Room was no fluke as he serves up a programme marking him as one of the more cerebral yet visceral writers to arise in recent years. With an album that is heady in both senses of the word-intelligent and exhilarating-Weiss emerges as one of the finest artists to mine the post bop arena, with an ability to develop longer-form composition that is clearly indebted to Wayne Shorter. Not since Dave Douglas rose to prominence in the mid-'90s has a trumpet player come along with such a perfect combination of technical prowess, unerring instinct for captivating melody, harmony and counterpoint, and sheer emotional force. A masterpiece by any definition, The Mirror deserves a place high in most listeners' top ten lists for '04 for its ability to engage more than just the ears; Weiss' compositions are remarkably visual as well".
-John Kelman All About Jazz
“The compositions and especially the colourful, warm, often pedal-point punctuated arrangements show how rapidly Weiss is maturing. His writing may well be initially inspired by what Wayne Shorter was doing for Miles in the mid '60s, but it is totally contemporary in its expansion of that era's unfinished business. And his two scores for the larger line-up are exceptional. The outstanding work on this album is The Mirror which he dedicates to Tarkovsky. The emotional depth of the scoring and the solos make it really something special. So is the whole album. Watch for Weiss. He's a major new talent. One of my 2004 Top Three CDs".
-Tony Hall JazzWise Magazine
“Weiss writes tunes with evocative melodic ambivalence and veering surprises and hovering pedal points and metrical asymmetry, all qualities associated with the sensibility that Wayne Shorter brought to jazz. But Weiss does not repeat it, he expands upon it"
-Thomas Conrad Downbeat Magazine “Wayne Wayne Shorter's influence may be apparent in the charts and Freddie Hubbard's in the playing, but Weiss' craftsmanship and individuality in both areas lift his music out of retrograde movement. It is an indicator of his skill that his five compositions complement the Shorter compositions on the album. Weiss' writing suggests that a major composer/arranger may be developing"
-Doug Ramsey Jazz Times Magazine
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