There are still unique voices in jazz
author: Jeffrey Lamkin
Some of the most original arrangements of old favorites I have ever heard. It's going to several friends and family members for the holidays.
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Cutting edge jazz interpretations that intrigues, consoles and entertains the tr
author: Erin McDougald, Jazz Vocalist (on CD Baby)
Dan Cray, Clark Sommers and Greg Wyser-Pratte are the kind of musicians that make New Yorkers want to visit Chicago and take note. They are buried treasures beginning to surface and it is very exciting to watch. This latest album, SAVE US, is a testimony to their synnergetic unity and collective-imagination! Check out When You Wish Upon a Star: I cannot tell if I'm creeped out by the haunting delivery of Dan's implosive reharmonizations or if I'm just plain hypmotized by the beauty that results from it. Just One of Those Things is another example of taking a tune 70 years old and making it perfectly vibrant-- that is the VERSE he is playing in the beginning of the song!!!
--A long way from what Sinatra crooned and far more tempestuous in it's pace and tone! Amazing.
The Dan Cray Trio performs weekly with me in Chicago; I am a jazz vocalist and currently in the process of recording my third album which features this brilliant trio. Our album is entitled MEETING PLACE and will be available on CDBABY soon. I hope you buy SAVE US and when you fall in love with it (and you will), please check out MEETING PLACE as well. They each have really tastey solos you'll eat up.
Save UP and buy a copy of SAVE US for everyone on your holiday list!!!!!
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Getting better and better
author: Nick C.
Great mix of new and old. The Dan Cray Trio continues to improve, this being their best work to date.
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