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Music for the Millennium

Ralph Simon

Label: Postcards
Released: 2022
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Tracks

Cousin Bruce; The Ballad Quartet Will Now Play Suite First Take; Dawn Tuning; Downhill Slalom; Rebecca’s Twillight; Una Noche (Mi Centaurita); Sweet Sorrow (R Plays Blue); Ghosts of Goethals (WE… ARE… ROLLING!); Windsong; Are You Ready (Sextet for the End of Now); Blue In Green.

Personnel

Ralph Simon

saxophone

Paul Bley

piano

Julian Priester

trombone

Gary Peacock

bass, acoustic

Alan Pasqua

piano

Jeff Berman

percussion

Tom Beyer

percussion

Elizabeth Panzer

harp

Bruce Ditmas

drums

Michael DiSibio

trumpet

Album Description

“Beautifully recorded and sensitively performed… …a very attractive album.” – Jazziz Magazine “Ralph Simon and the Magic Club: Music For the Millennium”, the second Postcards Jazz recording from Ralph Simon, features him on soprano saxophone and breath-controlled synthesizers, engaging in riveting duets, trios, quartets, and larger ensembles with a magic club of world-class improvisers. Paul Bley (Piano/Synth), Gary Peacock (Bass), Julian Priester (Trombone), Bruce Ditmas (Drums), and others bring their own unique musical vocabulary to a set of Simon’s original compositions (plus Miles Davis’ composition “Blue In Green”) that explores his extensive background in Jazz, contemporary classical music, and free improvisation with an eye towards effecting a remarriage of acoustic and electric music. “…subtle textures and hues of acoustic and electric music.” – Down Beat Magazine This CD, “Ralph Simon and the Magic Club: Music For the Millennium”, fuses tradition instrumentation with electronic innovation, as well as classical structures with modern Jazz feeling, and in doing do reveals directions for the future of Jazz in the next millennium. Welcome to the Magic Club!