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Sean Smith

Sean Smith Bassist and Composer Bassist Sean Smith has been an integral part of the international jazz scene for more than 30 years. He has appeared in many of the major jazz festivals, concert halls, and clubs all over the world. Sean has performed with Gerry Mulligan, Phil Woods, Benny Carter, Flip Phillips, Clark Terry, Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, Tom Harrell, Jacky Terrasson, Bill Charlap, Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Mark Murphy, Jimmy Scott, Andy Bey, Tracy K. Smith (winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry), and many others. Sean is also a prolific composer whose works have been played and recorded by such artists as Phil Woods, Mark Murphy, Bill Charlap, Gene Bertoncini, Leon Parker, and Bill Mays

The Parsonage

By Theo Bleckmann

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sailing To The Sunday School Picnic (Composed by Regina Carter); Ballad of The Man Who Laughed (Composed by Renee Rosnes); Translation, Two Cigar Butts (Composed by Ted Hearne); East In The Village (Composed by Kirk Nurock); Living Light (Composed by Dan Tepfer); Lou Reed Was Very Well Read (Composed by Theo Bleckmann); Glamour and Standing (Composed by Darcy James Argue); Eighteen Million Six (Composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider).

What to Wear in the Dark

By Keith Ganz

Label: Resilience Music Alliance
Released: 2021
Track listing: Dancing In The Dark; Barrytown; Both Sides Now; God Moves on the City; 59th St Bridge Song (w/intro from Hal Galper's A Touring Musician); Desperado; Anthem; On The Road to Find Out; Here Comes The Sun; It Happens All The Time In Heaven.

Some Kind Of Normal—The new, East Coast Jazz Festival

by Peter Rubie
March 20, 2021

Todd Barkan is a Jazz Club owner, which is a bit like saying Sonny Rollins is a saxophonist. It doesn't really tell you very much unless you already know about them. But it's a start. After a year of the plague (Covid-19 in case you're in doubt), being a club owner is not unlike being a ...

Ten on Cellar Live

by C. Michael Bailey
April 23, 2019

That crafty Canadian Cory Weeds was onto something with the creation of his Cellar Live and now Cellar Music label. He reveals himself as a man for all seasons in being a confident saxophonist, music historian, and archivist with his new label Reel to Real (in cooperation with that maestro of the catalog, Zev Feldman. With ...

Humanity

By Sean Smith

Label: Cellar Live Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: A Good Thing; Song for a New Day; Irving; End of the Line; Humanity; Samba for Evandrea; A Whole New You; Tears; Jobimiola; Spring Standard.

The Humanity Quartet: Humanity

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
December 21, 2018

This release is from four veteran, first-call jazz instrumentalists who are all concerned about the worldwide loss of humanity (hence, the title of both the quartet and the CD), and wanted to demonstrate what can happen when grown-ups truly connect. As co-producer, bassist, and composer Sean Smith explains in his articulate and passionate liners, ..."the Humanity ...

The Humanity Quartet: Humanity

by Jack Bowers
December 2, 2018

Music with a message? With a name like the Humanity Quartet and a CD titled Humanity, one might certainly presume no less. Music designed to help save the world from itself? Well, that's an exceedingly tall order. The Humanity Quartet, bassist Sean Smith writes, was indeed created with such a lofty goal in mind, “recognizing the ...

Kurt Elling With The Keith Ganz Trio at Jazz Standard

by Dan Bilawsky
August 2, 2016

Kurt Elling With The Keith Ganz Trio Jazz Standard New York, NY July 31, 2016 If there's any genre of music that's truly built on the idea of spur-of-the-moment change, it's jazz. And so, in that very spirit, we had this performance. The audience that came down to hear ...

Darius Jones, Mara Rosenbloom, Christian McBride, Tom Harrell & Leon Parker

by Martin Longley
July 15, 2016

The Darius Jones Quintet/The Mara Rosenbloom Trio Ibeam June 13, 2016 This appealing double bill made a Monday night visit to Ibeam a certainty, even if only for a select-sized audience. This musician-orientated room in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn is completely dedicated to the activity of performance, without a ...