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Debut compositional album feat. the Upper East Side Big Band, and members of Agents of Good Roots, Bio Ritmo, Devil's Workshop, Fighting Gravity, & Modern Groove Syndicate
Genre:
Jazz: Swing/Big Band
Release Date:
2006
Very Strange Night
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About VERY STRANGE NIGHT:
23-year-old Samson Trinh’s debut jazz compositional album, “Very Strange Night” was a project he worked on during his last year as a Jazz Studies major at Virginia Commonwealth University. The majority of the songs on the album were school assignments. For the recording, Samson hired 48 of the best musicians in Richmond including his 17-piece Upper East Side Big Band and vocalists Adrian Duke, Jackie Frost, Terri Murphy and international jazz trumpeter, Rex Richardson. All the songs were composed, arranged, orchestrated, conducted, and produced by Samson Trinh.
“Very Strange Night” is a concept album, which takes the listener on a musical journey across genres. The disc itself looks and feels like a record vinyl that starts the album off with a needle-drop sound effect. The night’s exhilarating experience includes lush jazz string orchestra arrangements, big band, country influences from the 1960s, classical, funk, and long song titles that also challen
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a great big band mellow flavor
author: Darrell Clark
a big band mellow groove flavor with a count basie influence spiced with a splash of King Creole/and Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band
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Samson Trinh has gathered a group of Richmond’s finest pickers!
author: 9x Online Magazine
A music major at Virginia Commonwealth University, Samson Trinh has gathered a group of Richmond’s finest pickers, singers and players and released VERY STRANGE NIGHT as a companion piece to his Senior Jazz Recital. What Trinh has done is write and arrange all of the songs (except one), as well as conduct. Trinh salutes big bands by having singer Terri Murphy lend her considerable pipes to “That’s Why” and “To You, Near You, With You.” Trinh goes to the lounge by having Adrian Duke contribute some smoky vocals and bluesy keyboards while fronting the so called Upper East Side Big Band on “Signs are Full of Jive.” “Thank Goodness” is a break from the big bands, being an acoustic shuffle featuring Jackie Frost’s sentimental vocal alongside Charles Arthur’s crying lap steel guitar.
The strangeness of the titles “I Can’t Believe I’m Addicted To O.C.” and “I Tried To Talk To Her But She Thought I Was Too Weird” hint at the music. The former features a free jazz battle between saxophonist
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Couldn't be any better
author: Kristin Reimer
This CD has it all - can't be missed. Samson Trinh is an original!
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Goes well with Richmond jazz and “The OC.”
author: Style Weekly
With 48 of the area’s best musicians taking part, it’s a bit like the Richmond Jazz Circus. All get their spin in the spotlight, but Trinh remains the ringmaster. The 22-year-old former Upper East Side Jazz Lounge entrepreneur wrote every song but one, and arranged and conducted everything except for a string section led by his model and mentor, Doug Richards, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor and big-band leader. Richards’ influence is reflected in Trinh’s complex but uncluttered architectures; each instrumental voice shines through with clear, Technicolor individuality.
The CD works on a variety of levels: as varied entertainment, as a surprising mature statement from a young artist, and as a vivid snapshot of the Richmond jazz scene circa 2006.
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