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Escape of the Fire Ants announces the arrival of LE REX as an international force: street smart & road-tested, ferociously grooving & lyrically charged, a new millennium jazz brass band infused with indie rock energy & attitude.
Harry Lime, the charming but dastardly anti-hero in the classic 1949 film noir The Third Man, famously dissed Switzerland saying „they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.“ The renegade Swiss quintet Le Rex isn’t making up for lost time, but there’s an urgency and creative ferocity to their music that would make Lime reconsider his unfair denigration. Featuring four expert horn players and drums, the band is a rising force on the European music scene, with an irresistibly grooving sound honed on the street and designed for maximum impact in clubs and concert halls.
Slated for release on Cuneiform Records on April 5, 2019, Le Rex’s fourth album Escape of the Fire Ants is the band’s most confident and cohesive, marked by consistently compelling compositions, careening melodies and thick, lapidary harmonies. It’s cosmopolitan music drawing on far-flung influences and connections to Chicago, Belgrade, Cape Town, New Orleans, and Lagos. Rather than flaunting an eclectic palette, Le Rex transmutes its source material into seamless original works reflecting the group’s singular collection of personalities. Featuring German-born alto saxophonist Benedikt Reising, tenor saxophonist Marc Stucki, trombonist Andreas Tschopp, tuba player extraordinaire Marc Unternährer, and drummer Rico Baumann, Le Rex reflects the fundamental strength that flows from musicians who’ve put in the time to forge deep ties on and off the bandstand.
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Le Rex: Escape of the Fire Ants
by Glenn Astarita
This young charismatic Swiss ensemble surges forward by melding modern sounds with New Orleans-based traditional jazz and hip groove-building pulses and perpetual motion, executed with manifold time signatures and soaring unison choruses. On its fourth album and second for Cuneiform Records, the musicians' sense of purpose transfers into your listening space as you can detect lots of smiles and conviction emanating from the band's memorable hooks, shifting themes and forceful overtones. Essentially, their seamless integration of trad jazz ...
Continue ReadingLe Rex: Wild Man
by Glenn Astarita
The band moniker Le Rex is culled from an abandoned theater, discovered on the island of Corsica, but there's nothing bleak or dusky about this quintet's musicality. After a successful tour of the US, they parked in Chicago to record this album, which is the musicians' third effort and first for Cuneiform Records. Essentially, these young lads convey remarkable maturity from a compositional perspective, and keep things novel or fresh amid a host of blossoming developments and tightly enacted grooves. ...
Continue ReadingDavid Pate & Rex Shepherd, One Half Of The Oddyssey Quartet, To Release New Album Seeing Sound
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
The first duet release from one half of the Oddyssey Quartet, with David Pate (Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra) and guitarist and composer Rex Shepherd (No End of Now). Seeing Sound features the two playing an improvised set, creating palpable musical textures using subtle harmonic and melodic ideas and developing them into intuitive conversations, “seeing” the sound of two like minds speaking with one another. “Playing duets with David Pate is like having a meaningful conversation with a good friend while ...
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Experimental Guitarist Rex Shepherd Releases Three Albums Digitally
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Guitarist Rex Shepherd has released three albums digitally: Ohio, Sonority and Duets. Combining elements of jazz improvisation and harmony with an approach to guitar playing heavily influenced by diverse players such as Jim Hall, Robin Trower, Fred Frith, and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, Rex Shepherd has forged a niche for himself with original music that typically lies somewhere just outside the usual genre labels but is still music that is approachable. Says Rex, “This new music was recorded in my ...
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Funkasaurus Rex Release "I Hear Voices"
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Joey Berkley
Funkasaurus Rex has released I Hear Voices. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Etched in Stone. This EP features a medley arrangement of Stevie Wonder's “I Wish/Superstition" plus an original by leader Joey Berkley entitled “Star." I Hear Voices also features a group of very talented singers. Yes, Funkasaurus Rex sings! Available now for download worldwide via iTunes, Amazon et al, a CD release of I Hear Voices is also planned for later in 2012. Co-produced by Joey Berkley and ...
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"Run for the Roses" a Rex Foundation Benefit
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JamBase
FEATURING TIM & NICKI BLUHM, MELVIN SEALS, ROBIN SYLVESTER, JOHN KADLECIK AND MORE On December 3, The Fillmore in San Francisco will host “Run for the Roses," a one-of-a-kind musical evening benefiting the Rex Foundation and celebrating the music of Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter and The Jerry Garcia Band. Reception/Concert Tickets are available through the Rex Foundation at 415-561-3135 and www.rexfoundation.org, GDTS TOO at www.gdtstoo.com, and Ticketmaster. Click here to download the Reception /Concert Ticket Order Form. At the pre-concert ...
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Louis Armstrong and Rex Harrison - "Now You Has Jazz" (1957)
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Funkasaurus Rex & Kelly Mittleman Play the Palace Theatre, Danbury, CT!
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Michael Ricci
Funkasaurus Rex features a dynamic 5-piece horn section sound along with a versatile rhythm section groove to create Jazz with power, precision and originality. The musical direction of the band brings great R & B / Funk songs from the past into a new era with a jazz perspective and inventive, fresh arrangements. Plus, their original material also comes out of that lineage and maintains the artistic integrity that their audience has come to expect--quality is the key. Whether it's ...
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Rex Foundation: Sweet Music
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JamBase
Sweet Music Everywhere The 25th Anniversary Rex Foundation Benefit on December 13
Jackie Greene by Blakesberg On December 13, the Rex Foundation will once again fill San Francisco's Warfield for an evening of music, connection and helping. Bring your friends and family for some dancing in the streets to celebrate what the Grateful Dead started 25 years ago and all that we can do together in the next 25 years.
Billed as “Sweet Music Everywhere," this festive evening ...
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Rappin' with Rex Richardson on Freedom Jazz Dance
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All About Jazz
Tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance--modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond--this Sunday on 90.1 FM WDCE from 5-7 PM, live from the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond.
This week I'm delighted to have world class trumpeter Rex Richardson as my guest in the studio as he provides insights into his musical muse, his recent performances in Greece, his work with the Virginia Commonwealth University jazz program and his latest release Live at the Bar Guru. Learn ...
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Upstairs with Rex on Freedom Jazz Dance
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All About Jazz
5 - 7 PM Sunday WDCE 90.1 FM Listen via streamcast 804-289-UR90 Studio Get your weekly jazz fix on Freedom Jazz Dance, modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond, this Sunday on 90.1 FM WDCE, live from the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond. This week I will be spinning a sleek new release from world class trumpeter and Richmond based jazz hero Rex Richardson, recorded live at a hip nightclub in Greece. Hear that, plus selections from ...
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Richard Underhill CD Release, Thursday, November 15th, Rex Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
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All About Jazz
You are cordially invited to the international release of my new CD Kensington Suite. Richard Underhill Quintet CD Release Party Kensington Suite Thursday, November 15th, 9pm. $8 cover (or $20 with free CD). The Rex Hotel, 194 Queen St. W Toronto, ON 416-598-2475 Here's a wee press teaser for you. Hope to see you there! On Thursday, November 15th at 9pm at the Rex Hotel, Richard Underhill releases ...
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