The Dara Quinn Project -][- THIS WAY, THAT WAY

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Dara Quinn, Jazz, Keyboards

The Dara Quinn Project - THIS WAY, THAT WAY

The Dara Quinn Project -][- THIS WAY, THAT WAY – [Indie, 2010]

Dara Quinn brings influences of jazz, funk, Latin and world music to her keyboard playing. A native Northwesterner, Dara spent over 10 years aggressively touring the West Coast based out of Seattle. After 2 years touring with a steel drum ensemble heavy on world rhythms, she formed Rockin’ Teenage Combo with Seattleites Paul Kemmish on upright and electric bass and Oliver Klomp on drums. This hard jazz fusion trio had quite a buzz on the West Coast and aggressively toured venues from San Diego to Bellingham and as far East as Bozeman, MT. RTC also became a Seattle favorite and played venues such as Jazz Alley, the Experience Music Project, Bumbershoot, Hempfest and more. Dara’s keyboard playing has crossed many genres from avante garde with “The Oxygen Project” to live dance and funk with Skerik (Critters Buggin) and Reggie Watts (Maktub) in “Das Rut” and “Ghoul Booty”.

Dara Quinn’s unique flavor in her improvisations and rhythmic tendencies has earned her the honor to jam with such greats as Les Claypool (Primus), Stanton Moore (Galactic), Jessica Lurie (Living Daylights), Tony Levin, Reggie Watts and countless other fantastic musicians.

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Nathaniel Smith -][- Quartet [Fresh Sounds]

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Drums, Jazz, Nathaniel Smith, Saxophone

Nathaniel Smith | Quartet

“Quartet” can be viewed as a document of the group I led and played with for the several years immediately after grad school. The tunes featured on this record are by me and Jostein, and had been played in many a venue to every size of crowd for years before we recorded them. I particularly love playing Jostein’s music, and I’m ecstatic that he gave his permission to record two of his excellent tunes, both of which embody artistic maturity, saying a lot with a little. ‘Daybreak And Then Dusk’ and ‘Tortoise Pendant’ were heavily influenced by David Liebman’s composition class. ‘Actionable Intelligence’ and ‘Shadow Puppet’ are reflections of the music I was listening to at the time, some of which you can probably guess […] –Nathaniel Smith

Tracklisting:

01. Daybreak And Then Dusk (Nathaniel Smith) 8:00
02. Tortoise Pendant (Nathaniel Smith) 6:35
03. Return Of The Bear (Jostein Gulbrandsen) 6:38
04. Tomorrow’s Perfume (Jostein Gulbrandsen) 4:24
05. Actionable Intelligence (Nathaniel Smith) 6:39
06. Travishamockery (Nathaniel Smith) 8:02
07. Shadow Peppet (Nathaniel Smith) 6:29

Total time: 46:49 min.

At your leisure, please visit http://www.nathanielsmithmusic.com/ for more information about this upcoming artist and read his BIO while you’re there.

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