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Job's Trials

By Dan Loomis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: our narrator, Ha Satan, proposes a bet; ABUNDANCE OVERTURE; the woeful conditions of the wager; NAKED RETURN; an answer arrives unheeded - Job’s lament; DO NOT COVER MY BLOOD; pious protestations: cold comfort; JOB’S BLUES; an appeal to a higher power; CONSIDER THIS: A HIGHER POWER; “Do you know where the light comes from?”; WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE; wondering on the wager... who spoke rightly?; DEAR LORD

Job's Blues

February 18, 2020

Album: Job's Trials
By Dan Loomis
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Duration: 05:18

Dan Loomis

Born: March 29, 1980

A stalwart of the Brooklyn creative music scene, Dan Loomis is a daring leader, a sought-after sideman, and a composer whose unique view of the world and music has led to the creation of innovative and moving works.

Loomis has produced over a dozen recordings as leader and co-leader of collective ensembles including Spoke and The Wee Trio. In 2020, he released the project “Job’s Trials: A Jazz Song Cycle”, an original musical/theatrical presentation which earned glowing praise from the press. A song from “Job’s Trials” went on to become the title track on the album“Abundance”, earning Loomis a Juno Award with Turboprop. The Wee Trio and Spoke also released critically-acclaimed albums in recent years, including Spoke’s (r)anthems in 2014, and The Wee Trio’s recording Wee+3 in 2017. Loomis is also consistently in demand as a recording artist and sideman, most notably with The Joel Frahm Trio and Vadim Neselovskyi trio, which recently recorded with John Zorn on his Book of Beriah release  Loomis has toured extensively around the world, all over NYC including many appearances at The Blue Note and Village Vanguard.