The Art of Trio

The Art of Trio

Track Listings

1. Blues for Bu (Featuring Tim Moran)

2. Waiting (Featuring Giacomo Gates)

3. A Child is Born (Featuring Ali Ryerson)

4. Doxy (Featuring Stacy Phillips)

5. Creole Love Call (Featuring Jim Fryer)

6. Recordame (Featuring Ali Ryerson)

7. My Heart is on the Low Down (Featuring Giacomo Gates)

8. For No Reason At All in C (Featuring Jim Fryer)

9. You Don't Know What Love Is (Featuring Stacy Phillips)

10. Beatrice (Featuring Tim Moran)

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Dr. David Chevan is an Assistant Professor of Music at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. He has published numerous articles on the history of early jazz, developed and taught courses on Jewish and African-American musical traditions and is currently working on a comprehensive study of Jazz Fake Books. As a performer Dr. Chevan has had the opportunity to work with many important jazz artists, including Ali Ryerson, Joe Beck, Jaki Byard, Harold Danko and Giacomo Gates. He has gained critical attention and praise for his intpretations of Jewish and African- Sacred music with pianist Warren Byrd (including the CD, AVADIM HAYINU, available on amazon.com). Dr. Chevan leads his own ensemble, BASSOLOGY, which has released two CDs (also available on amazon.com).

Rex Cadwallader is an EMMY award winning composer, frequently contributing to Connecticut Public Television productions. He is also former co-producer of the Faith Middleton Show on Connecticut Public Radio. As a well-respected jazz educator he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Connecticut State University, and at the University of Northern Colorado. He is currently serving as the chairman of the performing arts department as Green's Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut. His recent partnership with bassist David Chevan has resulted in the recent album, REPARTEE - The Cadwallader Chevan Duo, also available at amazon.com and his most recent solo album, Love Song For Nancy will be released this spring.

Product Description
RECKLESS DC MUSIC is proud to announce its fourth release, THE ART OF TRIO, featuring bassist David Chevan and pianist Rex Cadwallader with five of the most extraordinary artists currently living in Connecticut. The title of the album comes from a concert series that Chevan and Cadwallader have been hosting for the past two years at the Milford Fine Arts Center and the Clinton Town Hall. For this album Chevan and Cadwallader invited five artists from the series to join them in the studio. Each artist brought two pieces with them. The result is a joyously eclectic mix of styles and musical approaches that gives the listener not only a sense of the Art of Trio concert series, but a window into the contemporary jazz scene of Connecticut.

Flutist Ali Ryerson brings a classical veneer and shines on Thad Jones' "A Child is Born" and Joe Henderson's Latin infused composition, "Recordame". Vocalist extraordinaire, Giacomo Gates sings two original compositions, the first, his own "Waiting" is a cool blues and the second, "My Heart is on the Low Down," was written by another Connecticut native, Artt Frank, a multi-talented drummer and former Chet Baker sideman. The GRAMMY award winning Dobro master, Stacy Phillips brings his bluegrass influenced approach to Sonny Rollins' "Doxy" and gives a heart wrenching interpretation to the classic torch ballad, "You Don't Know What Love Is". Multi-instrumentalist Jim Fryer gives a tour-de-force performance on his tracks, playing trombone, euphonium, and cornet on a rendition of "For No Reason at All in C," a rarely recorded Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer composition. There are no overdubs on this or any other track on the CD, Jim just kept picking up the instruments a! s he needed them. His trombone and cornet playing on Duke Ellington's "Creole Love Call" is just as hot and also gives Rex and David a chance to show off their blues stylings. Finally, Tim Moran, one of the most versatile saxophonists in the state, kicks off and concludes the CD with two tunes that show why he's one of the most in- demand sidemen in Connecticut. His "Blues for Bu", an original blues line, blisters with raw energy from beginning to end and he brings all of his emotions to bear on a powerful rendition of the Sam Rivers composition, "Beatrice".

This recording represents a new phase in the collaborative work between David Chevan and Rex Cadwallader. For one, the nature of this projects allows them to show off their ability to move fluidly through a number of different jazz styles and settings. For another, it marks an expansion of their approach to spontaneous musical dialogue that was first documented on their CD, Repartee (Stanza USA, SCD-0040, available here at amazon.com). This approach, while hardly unique to these two individuals places an equal emphasis on virtuosity and being true to the spirit of the piece. These two elements can clearly be heard working hand-in-hand on The Art of Trio.

The Art of Trio

The Art of Trio,David Chevan and Rex Cadwallader with Various Artists

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