City Life: Music of Gregg Hill Michael Dease

• 1 Willow Walks In 05:02
• 2 City Life 06:28
• 3 Danger Zone 05:04
• 4 Movie Theme 04:53
• 5 Sweet Georgia Gillespie 04:14
• 6 Double Bill 05:14
• 7 Claxilever 04:25
• 8 Catalyst 07:15
• 9 Say What!? 04:41
• 10 Movie Theme (Reprise) 06:10
• 11 Tea Time 06:07
• 12 The Classic II 07:11
• 13 Grave Concerns 06:31
• 14 Mr. Hurt 06:58
• 15 Rainy Afternoon 05:43
• 16 Enigma 06:15
• 17 Skittles 06:03
• 18 Blues for Herb 04:50
• 19 Lafayette Square 04:55
• Total Runtime 01:47:59

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Michael Dease hat sich seinen Status als einer der großen Posaunisten und Jazzer unserer Zeit redlich verdient. Das Doppel-Album "City Life", sein drittes Album, das der Musik des Komponisten Gregg Hill gewidmet ist, zeigt, wie sehr er sein Instrument beherrscht und wie sehr er nach inspirierten musikalischen Herausforderungen und soliden Partnerschaften strebt.

Zusammen mit zwei der stärksten Stimmen in der Musik - der Bassistin Linda May Han Oh und dem Schlagzeuger Jeff „Tain“ Watts - widmet Michael Dease eine kinetisch aufgeladenen Trio-Umgebung und fängt die düstere Seite von City Life ein, indem er frei mit seinen Trio-Kollegen sparrt, während sie meisterhaft mit dem Fluss der Zeit zusammenleben. Des Weiteren kommen die Saxofonistin Nicole Glover und der Pianist Geoffrey Keezer hinzu, die eine raffinierte Gegenposition einnehmen, wobei jeder Teil des Albums eine Perspektive der Widersprüche einnimmt, die das Stadtleben ausmachen.

"Dease modernisiert den Stil erheblich, verleiht ihm Energie und eine neue Dimension. Er beherrscht sowohl die lebhaftesten als auch die poetischsten Stücke..." (Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move)

Michael Dease, Posaune
Linda May Han Oh, Bass
Jeff "Tain" Watts, Schlagzeug
Nicole Glover, Tenorsaxophon
Geoffrey Keezer, Klavier
Jared Beckstead-Craan, Bass (Tracks 14, 16)
Brooklyn Dease, Gesang (Tracks 4, 10)
Gregg Hill, Kompositionen & Produzent

Michael Dease
has emerged as one of the premier jazz trombonists of his generation. He serves as associate professor of jazz trombone at the MSU College of Music.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, the “Deep South,” Dease played the saxophone and trumpet before choosing the trombone. He was a self-taught high school senior, when he moved to New York in 2001 to study at the Juilliard School where he earned his Bachelor and Master degrees.

Dease quickly established his reputation as a soloist and sideman, recording 4 albums as a leader and logging over 100 sessions as a sideman, all before the age of 30. His 4 critically praised releases as a leader include: The Takeover (2005), Clarity (2007), Dease Bones (2008) and Grace (2010). His latest album, Coming Home, to be released on D Clef Records, May 21st, features a stellar lineup of band mates: pianist Renee Rosnes, bassist Christian McBride, drumer Ulysses Owens Jr, and saxophonist Steve Wilson, plus a guest appearance by tenor sax man Eric Alexander.

He is a Grammy award-winning trombonist, and has played with many of today’s foremost jazz orchestras, including those led by Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Charles Tolliver and Rufus Reid. He has revitalized the trombone’s image on the frontline of quintets and sextets lead by masters musicians like Winard Harper, Renee Rosnes, Bill Charlap, Claudio Roditi, The Heath Brothers and Lewis Nash.

Michael learned his craft from trombone legends Wycliffe Gordon and Joseph Alessi. His associations run the entire spectrum of musical genres and include Alicia Keys, Paul Simon, Paul Schaffer, CBS Orchestra, Elton John, Neal Diamond, Illinois Jacquet, Slide Hampton, The World Of Trombones, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, WDR Big Band, George Gruntz, Billy Harper, and numerous others.

Dease’s unique blend of curiosity, hard work and optimism has helped him earn worldwide recognition, including awards from ASCAP, The International Trombone Association, Yamaha, Eastern Trombone Workshop, New York Youth Symphony, among others. Dease was recently profiled in Cicily Janus’ book, The New Face of Jazz: An Intimate Look at Today’s Living Legends (Random House).

Michael’s singular teaching talent has resulted in invitations to host master classes and residencies at University of North Texas, Scranton University, University of Iowa, Florida State College, Broward College, and many institutions abroad, and has also been on faculty at Queens College CUNY, The New School and Northeastern University.

Aside from leading his own quartet, quintet and sextet, Dease conducts his own 17-piece big band loaded with young talents like Sharel Cassity and Coleman Hughes, plus heavy hitters Rodney Whitaker, Greg Gisbert and Tom “Bones” Malone.

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