Ray's Music Exchange

Ray's Music Exchange: Blue in the Face

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 13, 2005

It's generally considered bad writing to describe one thing in terms of something else that the reader may also need described. This may be considered bad writing, then, but I've gnawed for weeks on this Cincinnati quartet's second studio release, and fifth overall, and this is my best attempt at describing its sound.

Imagine yourself in a room with two CD players. One plays the horn-driven bop of a late-model Jazz Messengers and the other features the guitar-stoked ...

LAUAN RECORDS INTRODUCES MIRACLE ORCHESTRA, RAY'S MUSIC EXCHANGE, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS ON THREE SETS VOLUME THREE

Source: All About Jazz

BOULDER, CO (July 26, 2001) -- THREE SETS VOLUME 3 is the newest installment of the acclaimed THREE SETS series on Lauan Records (LEW-On), “The Jamband Label."

For THREE SETS VOLUME 3, Lauan has again assembled sets of three rapidly rising presences on the jamband front: MIRACLE ORCHESTRA from Boston, RAY'S MUSIC EXCHANGE from Cincinnati and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, out of Seattle. National release is set for Oct. 30, 2001.

MIRACLE ORCHESTRA features Geoff Scott's guitar and Jared Sims' saxes ...
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