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Big Tall Wish

Big Tall Wish is the brainchild of Mike Barile (guitar) and Steve Armstrong (bass), created in January 2004 while both were students in the University of New Orleans Jazz Program. Having moved from different parts of the country (Barile from Boston, Armstrong from Kansas City) in search of more playing experience in the jazz idiom, Armstrong and Barile found themselves fully immersed in New Orleans' world-renowned music scene, studying music by day and playing it by night. This was a period of substantial growth for both musicians, yet they felt the need to express themselves in a greater creative capacity than the standard jazz band would allow. While Barile and Armstrong listened to jazz music regularly, they found themselves increasingly intrigued by the sounds of modern electronic musicians. They also wanted their music to"connect" to their own generation in a way that jazz music typically did not, to create a style and a concept that was both fun for non-musicians to listen to and satisfying for musicians to play. These somewhat vague ideas formed the basis for Big Tall Wish.

Leverage

By Big Tall Wish

Label: D-Popa Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Boomshakaboom; Roller Derby Destruction Unit; A Thin Line; Slinky; It's A Circus; Yes, No, Maybe So; Riot Jazz (aka/Beezlebubblyboo); Talk To Me; Time To Go; Lonely Woman.

Big Tall Wish: Leverage

by Mark F. Turner
April 2, 2007

It's not clear whether the tune “Punk Jazz, by the late great jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius, was a protest against the acoustic jazz establishment or not. But for decades musicians have continued to produce their own statements of self-expression using whatever technologies and influences available at their disposal. The group Big Tall Wish, like many jazz-oriented ...