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Started in 2011, SKETCHES is a Brooklyn-based collective jazz quintet in which each member writes music based on another member's musical idea. Before each rehearsal members post a sketch from their notebook (e.g. any musical fragment, a collection of fragments, an incomplete tune) and another member uses that as the basis for a new composition. Inherent in each piece is the challenge of blending two distinct musical personalities, yet with an ensemble of strong composers and sensitive performers, the results have been as engaging as they are unpredictable. Volume One is SKETCHES' first release after working on this concept for over a year – writing, rehearsing, and performing in New York's Small's Jazz Club and Douglass Street Music Collective – until a cohesive set of material was ready to record

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Sketches

Label: ear&eyes Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Beginnings; New Three; Shape Twenty; Sketch Two; No Straight Lines; Shape Twenty-One

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Volume 2

By SKETCHES

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Caught In The Storm; Bibi; Sirenia; Hybrid Cars; Y&H; Wrong Place, Wrong Time; Hail From Plainville; Rub; Dyson Ritual; Not Wrong; Calm After The Storm.

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Volume One

By SKETCHES

Label: BaldHill Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Trust; Dark; Cornerstone; Dusk On The Porch; Shadow Search; Knew; Chain Letter CCC #1; Running With The Princess.

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SKETCHES Volume Two

By SKETCHES

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Released: 2014

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW October 2, 2014

Sketches: Volume 2

By DAN BILAWSKY

Same musicians, same winning concept, great new songs: that's what awaits on the second volume of music from the quintet collective known as Sketches. This Brooklyn-based outfit works a unique angle with its own brand of cross-pollinated composition, whereby one musician brings in a tidbit of music that serves as the seed for ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW January 23, 2014

Sketches: Volume One

By DAN BILAWSKY

Compositional specificity can be a blessing and a curse. It's easy to understand how having every last instruction set to paper can be helpful when it comes to starting the music making process, but the flip side of that argument is that there's nothing left to actually create if everything is already there in black and ...

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