After the release of their all-original first CD, Angela Carole Brown's THE SLOW CLUB, this unique jazz quartet, now known as The Slow Club Quartet, established a kind of Expressionist Jazz Movement. Now, with EXPRESSIONISM, on Rue de la Harpe Records, and named for this specific turn in their artistic development, the SCQ has covered the songs of their favorite songwriters.
But true to a movement known for its "eruption of irrational and chaotic forces from beneath the surface of a mechanized world," The SCQ has forsaken the typical "standards" CD that jazz artists are usually known for, and instead has created a cross-genre experience, which dips neither into fusion nor smooth jazz, but something altogether otherly. EXPRESSIONISM is the opposite of smooth. Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, and Elliott Smith, to name a few, have been given The Slow Club Quartet's uniquely expressionistic stamp.
The Slow Club Quartet are: Angela Carole Brown – vocals; Ed Czach – piano; Don Kasper – bass; Craig Pilo – drums.
Together this collaborative team has created a moody, thrash jazz experience with EXPRESSIONISM.
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