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Four Phase

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Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2022
Duration: 00:64:32
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Tracks

1. Ease On In 12:50 2. Frizzle 6:07 3. March 2021 16:51 4. One Drop 4:42 5. Some Scovilles 8:32 6. Casual Loose Fit 15:30

Personnel

Hugh Ragin

trumpet

Ron Coulter

drums

Alex Nauman

guitar, electric

Matt Smiley

bass

Additional Personnel / Information

RACCA trio Hugh Ragin – trumpets, bells & conduction (track 5) Alex Nauman – electric guitar & effects pedals Matt Smiley – bass Ron Coulter – drum set, percussion, lo-fi electronics, found objects All compositions by Hugh Ragin, Alex Nauman, Matt Smiley, and Ron Coulter

Album Description

https://raccatrio.bandcamp.com/album/four-phase Recorded April 23 & 24, 2021 in Casper, WY Audio recording, mixing, mastering and graphic design by Ron Coulter BIOGRAPHIES: Dr. HUGH RAGIN was raised in Houston, Texas, and began playing trumpet in his early teens, taking lessons in classical music, and was a member of the Houston All-City High School Orchestra. He received a degree in music education from the University of Houston and a degree in classical trumpet performance from Colorado State University. He continued his education in 1978 at the Creative Music Studio with Roscoe Mitchell. One year later he performed with Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and the Creative Orchestra at the Moers Festival in Germany; he then toured with Anthony Braxton. During the early 1980s he toured with jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, and he began an association with David Murray, becoming a member of Murray's band in the 1980s. Currently he is a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Dr. Ragin received his DMA in jazz studies from UC Boulder, where he leads a variety of ensembles, master classes, and workshops. ALEX NAUMAN has been a regular player throughout the Rocky Mountain Gig circuit and a member of many eclectic groups before he could drive himself to gigs. Playing everything from straight-ahead Jazz, Funk, R&B, Soul, Rock, Hip-Hop, Bluegrass, Experimental, and even a little Country. Raised in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, Alex studied guitar with legendary guitarist Jeff Troxel from an early age. After graduating from Riverside High School, he attended Northwest College in Powell, WY where he continued studying guitar, and then attended the University of Northern Colorado earning a Bachelors degree in jazz performance. While in Colorado, he won numerous awards at the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival and was awarded the Walt Francis Jazz Award for outstanding graduating senior. In 2014, Alex joined the faculty of Rocky Mountain College and currently teaches guitar, bass, and banjo at Allied Music in Billings, MT as well as maintaining an active performance schedule throughout the West. MATT SMILEY is a bassist, composer, and educator residing in Denver, CO. As a performer and a composer, Smiley focuses on developing systems and modes of playing at the nexus of composition and improvisation referencing the American and European experimental music traditions, while simultaneously and idiosyncratically deviating from them. His multifaceted and studied approach to both the bass and composition enable an adroit facility in both idiomatic and non-idiomatic settings. Smiley has worked with a number of diverse and prominent performers and composers including Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Stephen Drury, Jean-Claude Risset, Terrell Stafford, and Greg Osby. In addition to his rigorous performance schedule, he teaches at both Denver School of the Arts Jazz Camp and The Gift of Jazz, and he is currently completing his D.M.A. degree in jazz studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. RON COULTER is a percussionist, composer, and improviser. He has presented at 100+ universities and has toured internationally appearing in all 50 U.S. states, Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan with artists such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, David Murray, Sean Jones, Sam Newsome, Vinny Golia, Linux Laptop Orchestra, Matthew Shipp, Nate Wooley, Sandy Duncan, Bolokada Condé, Music from China, Youngstown Symphony, Gino Robair, Michael Zerang, Eric Mandat, Chris Corsano, and Tone Road Ramblers, among others. Ron has presented at numerous conferences, including: ISIM, PASIC, NIME, LiWoLi, BMC3, JEN, CMS, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Futurisms, Soundlines, RadiaLx, and the JVC and Montreal Jazz Festivals. He is co-founder of the Percussion Art Ensemble, duende entendre, Marble Hammer, Drm&Gtr, and founder of the Southern Illinois Improvisation Series and Creative Music Series. Additional interests include noise, intermedia, interdisciplinary collaboration, and organizing Fluxconcerts. As a composer, Ron has created more than 430 compositions for various media.

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