“Contemplations" features nine original compositions in a wide renge of jazz styles. Throughout the C.D., the quintet reaffirms the distinctive commitment to unpredictability and innovation that has been its hallmark since the band formed in the early 1990s.
With more than 70 minutes of music, “Contemplations" covers a mixture of jazz styles from bop-oriented mainstream jazz to funk and unbounded free-form jazz featuring challenging melodies and abrupt changes of style and attack. For example, there are airy medium-tempo melodies, an up-tempo free-form romp, a mainstream bossa-nova, an excursion in Latin-tinged funk, a conventional jazz ballad, and a mediun-up blues original.
The C.D. features Terry Gordon on trumpet and fluegelhorn, Eric Walentowicz on saxophones and flute, Gordon Tibbits and George Muscatello on guitars, Jason Rafalak on bass, and Matthew Maguire on drums. Information about the band is available on the internet at www.albanyjazz.com.
“Contemplations" is available at:
cdbaby.com Barnes and Noble (Colonie, New Hartford, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Borders Books and Music (Colonie and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) Record Theatre (Dewitt, N.Y.) El Palacio Musicale (Amsterdam, N.Y.) Cole's Woodwind and Brass Shop (Watervliet, N.Y.) Blue Sky Music (Delmar, N.Y.) Camardello's Music (Washington Mills, N.Y.) The Last Unicorn (Washington Mills and New Hartford, N.Y.)
For more information contact All About Jazz.
