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Michael Barton

Michael’s career as a bassist began in the suburbs of Chicago, performing with college ensembles while still in high school, and frequenting clubs in the city before having a driver’s license. These early experiences led him to the University of North Texas, where he earned a Bachelor’s (1998) and Master’s Degree (2000) in Jazz Studies. There he learned the language of music, composition and arranging – and experimented with audio recording and production. After graduating, he continued working as a session player and sideman in Dallas.

In the college library, Michael had studied not only music but the images that surrounded it. Returning to Chicago in 2002, he began to expand his art beyond music, to visual creation and photography. In less than a decade, he progressed from receiving his first camera, to full-time photographer, to decorated Master of Photography. His work has seen publication in numerous international photography magazines, been displayed in galleries across the United States, and garnered a long list of awards and accolades. With his accomplishments as a photographer, he became an in-demand educator, teaching throughout the United States. In 2013, he became the youngest-ever recipient of a Fellowship from the American Society of Photographers. Following this achievement, Michael began seeking ways to reconnect his love of visual art with his obsession for music.

The Anxiety Suite

By Michael Barton

Label: Sign Holder Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Consumption; Low; April 20; King of the Bubble; Sketch of Life; The Sign Holder; Postlude; Helen.

Story At Eleven

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: Cora St Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Appointment With...; Internal Rift; Near Surrender; Answer & Arrival.

J Town Suite

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: Cora Street Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Steelmen March; Fires or Rings in the Back; Herald's News; In the Shadow of Statesville; Jerry; Tap, Keg & Tavern; Hickory Street; Bridge Closed; Ghost Mall on Jefferson.

Shawn Maxwell: Story At Eleven

by Hrayr Attarian
April 26, 2023

On his 11th release, the aptly titled Story At Eleven, saxophonist and composer Shawn Maxwell leads his quartet through a four-part, cinematic suite. Utilizing electric instrumentation Maxwell endows the ambiance with a noirish undercurrent. The expansive pieces, thanks to Maxwell's writing, demonstrate ensemble cohesiveness without sacrificing the individual voices of the four musicians. Keyboardist ...

Answer & Arrival

March 29, 2023

Album: Story At Eleven
By Shawn Maxwell
Label: Cora St Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 8:00

Expectation & Experience

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Expectation; J.C. Jones; Empty Shelf; Quiet House; The Great Divide; Feeling Remote; Breathe; A Change of Climate; Alternative Facts; Every Day Is Monday; No Peace Without Justice; The Show Can’t Go On; Empty Stage; Six Hundred; Lockdown; The New Abnormal; Experience.

Joel Moore: Magnetic

by Jack Bowers
July 27, 2017

Saxophonist Joel Moore says Magnetic is an EP, even though it runs for as long (thirty-seven minutes) as some full-fledged re-releases on CD from the LP era. Moore's quintet performs five songs in all, two by the leader, one each by guitarist Nick Mizock and bassist Michael Barton, plus Wayne Shorter's diaphanous “Ana Maria," which opens ...