CD Review on Dutch Jazz Times

The Jazz blog “Dutch Jazz Times has just posted a review of our New CD J.S.B. Here are a few quotes.

“Kwakkernaat opens the solos on this track with a short but well formed solo leading to a beautifully melodic bass solo from band leader Andrew Read.”

“Kwakkernaat is brilliant in this rendition of Monk’s classic stretching the harmonic possibilities of the changes to their outermost edges while still retaining the essence of the original.”

“I really like this CD and if asked if I it’s worth buying, the answer would be simple, In a New York minute.”

 

You can read the entire review here

CD Launch - 14th January 2011

On the 14th of January 2011 the Andrew Read Trio In association with Aliud Records will launch their new CD "J.S.B."

The launch will be in Theater Concordia in Enschede (The Netherlands). Tickets are now on sale via their website Concordia or by phone +31(0)53-4311089.

Interview with Andrew on All About Jazz.com

The jazz website allaboutjazz.com published the following interview Andrew last week.

Meet Andrew Read:
I studied double-bass at the Victorian college of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. After leaving the college I worked with a number of prominent Australian pop and jazz artists including, among others, Vince Jones, Ricky May, Brave Men and Perfect Strangers. After the tragic death of Perfect Strangers' singer Andy Clayton Smith, Liz and I moved to the Netherlands, where I furthered my studies in classical music with the famous classical solo bassist Hans Roelofsen, at the ArtEZ conservatorium in Arnhem. In 1996, I formed the Andrew Read Trio that would become my main vehicle for my compositions. read more

New CD J.S.B to be released in December 2010

The Andrew Read Will release their 5^th CD titled J.S.B. on Aliud Records in December 2010. As a preview  3 tracks from the album have been added to our ReverbNation  profile  (WAM, and Just before dawn). You can also listen to these tracks on  this site on the “Sound Bites”page.

Charles Mingus once said “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that's creativity”. This tends to describe our philosophy for this CD. The majority of the original compositions on this program are based on the chord changes from well known works taken from the classical repertoire. One thing I can assure you is that this program is nothing like the old done to death “Bach meets Jazz” idea. For these pieces we applied the same concept used by jazz musicians during the Be Bop era where new melodies were applied to existing chord progressions. The major difference is that instead of sourcing our chord changes from songs out of the American songbook tradition we opted to explore the European classical music tradition for our harmony. During the preparation for this recording and the concert program we had a great time playing with the endless possibilities provided us by the old masters and enjoyed looking for simple ways to transpose these rich harmonies into the language of jazz.

 W.A.M, is based on the harmony from “trio” movement from Beethoven’s piano sonata Op2 no3. While remaining true to Beethoven’s chord progression we set this piece within an AABA form with the solo’s over an A minor blues progression.

Just before dawn  is based on the harmony used by Samual Barber in his famous Adagio for Strings. We gave Hans’s melody and Barbers chords a medium bossa-nova feel and changed the form slightly to end up with an AB form.

The CD is expected to out on Aliud Records in December and should hit the stores later that month. I hope you enjoy these tracks and would be great to see you at one of the concerts during 2011.

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