Album Notes

Jazzheads - avant wot not (1k) The first standard-issue CD on Tim Motzer\'s label 1k. Recorded in December of 1998 and re-released in the fall 2008 to celebrate the bands 10 year anniversary, and with the added promise of some long-overdue live shows. This 10-track effort (made up of super jazz drummer Ari Hoenig, guitarist/composer Tim Motzer, saxophonist Chris Cuzme, and bassist Ben Bocardo) is a nimble, all instrumental excursion into the disparate corners of all that boogies, simmers and swings, from acid jazz to improv, from drum n bass to funk. The playing in dizzyingly fine throughout. But what\'s most compelling about avant wot not is its unhampered sense of fun, an \"up\" vibe that carries listeners over some rough compositional patches and murky stylistic transitions.

That giddy quotient should come as no surprise, seeing as Jazzheads were, in essence, born out of a simple love of playing. \"Ari Hoenig and myself kind of met through the house band at Silk City,\" Motzer recalls. \"He used to come out and listen every Monday night. One night we started talking, and he said, \'Hey man, you want to come out and play some night?\' And I said, \'Sure man, let\'s do it.\' I had a bunch of tunes, we booked some gigs and it just jelled.\"

\"This record is kind of looking back at what has gone down-from the 70\'s up to this moment in time-and also looking a bit toward the future,\" says Motzer from an interview from the Philly Weekly in 1999... when the jam band scene was just in it\'s infancy.

Back in their heyday Jazzheads headlined Toronto\'s Acid Jazz Festival, NYC\'s the BellAtlantic Jazz Festival, the Welcome America Festival in Philadelphia (where they opened for the Sun Ra Arkestra), were regulars in NYC/Philly clubs and a huge hit on college campuses on the east coast.

They won the Philadelphia City Paper\'s Music Awards Best Jazz Performer of the Year 2000 for their album \'Avant Wot Not\'.

This Philly-NYC classic re-release of avant wot not gives first time listeners an opportunity to hear what this band was all about back in late 90\'s....Finally, you\'ll have your chance to have this CD in your collection or buzzing away in your ipod. Pick it up and enjoy.

Jazzheads - Avant Wot Not (1k)
Featuring
Ari Hoenig (drums, jingle stick, shells)
Tim Motzer (guitars, guitar synth, banjo, mandolin)
Chris Cuzme (saxophones, didgeridoo)
Ben Bocardo (upright electric and fender bass)
with special guests:
Dan Sears (trumpet, and flugelhorn on hollands tunnel, fourth world + triangulus)
Philip Yaeger (trombone on hollands tunnel, fourth world + triangulus)
Jim Hamilton (percussion on near fatal funk)

recorded and mixed by Brian Boland at Rittenhouse Recording Philadelphia
December 1998 assisted by Jim Hamilton mastered by Brian Boland at Nautica
produced by Tim Motzer for 1k recordings

www.1krecordings.com
www.myspace.com/timmotzer
www.arihoenig.com
www.myspace.com/arihoenig
www.cuzme.com
www.myspace.com/cuzme
www.myspace.com/bocardo


CELEBRATING IT\'S 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND UPCOMING REUNION SHOWS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY!