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Nimble Digits

Geoff Stradling

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
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Tracks

Blue Note; Brecker Sketch (in memoriam Michael Brecker); Poinciana; Nimble Digits; Baton Noir; Here in Spirit; Don’t Shoot the Messenger; Iguaçu; Wrap Party; Habanero.

Personnel

Additional Personnel / Information

Jeff Driskill: woodwinds; Dan Kaneyuki: tenor sax; Tom Luer: flute, alto sax; Glen Berger: tenor sax; Matt Fronke: trumpet, flugelhorn; Stan Martin: trumpet, flugelhorn; Rob Schaer: trumpet; Aaron Janik: trumpet; Dave Richards: trombone; Erm Navarro: trombone; Lori Stuntz: trombone; Juliane Gralle: bass trombone; Ryan Dragon: trombone; Erik Hughes: trombone; Francisco Torres: trombone; Scott Whitfield: trombone; Bruce Lett: acoustic & electric basses; Cooper Appelt: electric bass; Ross Schodek: electric bass; Kristin Olson: percussion; Michael Spiro: percussion; Joey De Leon: percussion; Nate Werth: bata.

Album Description

Los Angeles-based composer/arranger/keyboardist Geoff Stradling has spent most of his decades-long career focused on the success of other’s films, TV shows and albums he’s been associated with, including many years as Music Director of the Golden Globe Awards. All along, his StradBand acted as a workshop for his concepts and a collective project for many of his colleagues. With ‘Nimble Digits,’ the band takes center stage, highlighting the wide breadth of the modern jazz orchestra—from the styles originated by Gil Evans, to post- Miles fusion, to Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian influences. He wields his ensemble the way the best bandleaders always have, playing to individual musicians’ strengths while maintaining a strong and personal harmonic, contrapuntal, and textural thematic throughout. L.A.’s musical talent pool is dozens deep at every chair, and many of its brightest stars are here, with thirty-one musicians bringing Stradling’s music to life.

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