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BASSic Instinct

Label: Burton Avenue Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: BASSic Instinct; The Best Thing for You [Would Be Me]; Dearly Beloved; Theme from “Mannix”; Bateu, Levou/Who’s Wrong or Right; Seascape; Tea for Two; Joy; So What; Soon It’s Gonna Rain [Theme from “The Fantasticks”]; Tico Tico No Fuba; I’m Confessin’ [That I Love You]; I Remember.

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Mike Davis

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Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple shows in multiple styles on different instruments at different venues with different bands on the same day numerous days per week, week after week after week. He has been a record producer, sitting in front of a computer and a rack of mic pres and compressors – recording, editing, mixing, picking on artists until he finally feels they ‘got it’. He has been a recording artist, obsessing over whether the material is right, whether the concept is strong, whether the ensemble gets it

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Fortunes and Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2

Label: Tmpf Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: You Are Known For Being Quick In Actions and Decisions; Hat-Trick #4; Hat-Trick #8; People In Your Background Will Be More Cooperative Than Usual; We Must Not Become Complacent Over Any Success; Hat-Trick #2; Hat-Trick #7; The Less One Has To Do, The Less Time One Finds To Do It; Hat-Trick #6; We Are Very Happy Together; Hat-Trick #5; Hat-Trick #10.

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Mike Davis: Fortunes and Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2

Read "Fortunes and Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Double bassist Mike Davis organizes his spontaneous, immediate improvisations-compositions according to two arbitrary guidelines. The Fortunes group of such compositions draw its inspiration from evocative song titles taken from about 100 fortune cookies, but Davis and his trio co-conspirators--saxophonist Jacob Duncan and drummer Jason Tiemann--never discuss their different interpretations of these titles before playing. The second ...

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Hat-Trick #8

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Label: Tmpf Records
Released: 0
Duration: 03:45

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Where The Cerebral And The Visceral Meet... Fortunes And Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2 by Mike Davis

Where The Cerebral And The Visceral Meet... Fortunes And Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2 by Mike Davis

The latest album from Tmpf Records features Mike Davis on double bass, Jacob Duncan on alto saxophone and Jason Tiemann on drums. All songs were spontaneously composed by the trio utilizing two compositional concepts created by Davis. The first he calls “Fortunes," and the second he calls “Hat-tricks." “Fortunes" is a spontaneous compositional concept based on ...

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Eric Erhardt: A Better Fate

Read "A Better Fate" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Unlike a lot of jazz artists hawking a debut recording these days, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Eric Erhardt is not fresh out of music school. He has been around for a while, playing for two decades in Broadway pit bands and with trad jazzers Ken Peplowski and Artie Shaw. A student of Dave Liebman, Erhardt's own musical interests ...

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Good Sense Is the Master of Human Life

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Label: Tmpf Records
Released: 0
Duration: 3:11

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Take Five With Mike Davis

Read "Take Five With Mike Davis" reviewed by Mike Davis


Meet Mike Davis:Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple shows in multiple styles on different instruments at different venues with different bands on the same day ...

Album

Camden '70

Label: Dusk Fire
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01.Stratusfunk; 02. Tanglewood; 03. Shades Of Blue; 04. Rope Ladder to the Moon; 05. Dusk Fire; 06. Naima; 07. Nardis; 08. Sturdy; 09. Rebirth; 10. Ballad; 11. Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe; 12. National Anthem & Tango.


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