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Field Notes is an Ottawa-based story-telling band. Centred around the core line-up of saxophonist Peter Woods and guitarist Kyle Jordan, Field Notes intentionally seek inspiration from musical and non-musical sources as a method of creating. A largely collaborative project, Field Notes is often expanded in performances and recordings to include a host of other Ottawa musicians and creatives.
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Wil Blades To Release "Field Notes" On Royal Potato Family
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Calabro Music
No less a jazz organ authority than the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future," anointing him the heir apparent “to carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the organ, of the B-3." Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his forthcoming studio album, Field Notes, out August 19 from Royal Potato Family. The nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is the road, with pieces written from snippets recorded ...
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“Brilliant album of uplifting, ethereal, spiritual jazz”
Pierre Chretien (Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, SoulJazz)
“-a speculative and world-building love letter to the future.”
Caitlin Fisher (York University)
“It invokes and enacts the very condition it seeks to explore. Listening to this album is like having gold bricks smuggled into your soul as you sleep."
Mark Dickinson (Trent University)
Field Notes
Location: Ottawa
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
