Clarence Penn -][- Dali In Cobble Hill -[Criss Cross, 2012]-

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Adam Rogers, Amazon, Ben Street, brooklyn neighborhood, Chris Potter, Clarence Penn, Composer, Criss Cross, Drummer, entertainment

Clarence Penn, DALI IN COBBLE HILL

Clarence Penn -][- Dali In Cobble Hill -[Criss Cross, 2012]-

On his long-awaited follow-up to his critically lauded 1996 Criss Cross debut, Penn’s Landing, and the equally powerful Play-Penn, from 2001, master drummer-percussionist Clarence Penn presents Dali in Cobble Hill, a meditation on how the iconic Surrealist painter might have digested a stroll through Penn’s Brooklyn neighborhood.

The eight originals and two standards incorporate a variety of moods, flavors, and strategies that reflect Penn’s extensive activity as a sideman for jazz’ best-and-brightest over the past decades; his ensemble of grand master generational contemporaries Chris Potter on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Adam Rogers on guitar, and Ben Street on bass inhabit the stories, playing with deep imagination and virtuosic craft. -[Editorial Review | Amazon]-

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Mobtown Moderb Big Band -][- ADORATION OF THE EARTH – [Innova, 2012] –

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Composer, Darryl Brenzel, Igor Stravinsky, Innova, Mobtown Moderb Big Band

Mobtown Moderb Big Band, ADORATION OF THE EARTH

Mobtown Moderb Big Band -][- ADORATION OF THE EARTH –Mp3– [Innova, 2012] –

When Mobtown Modern Music Series curator Brian Sacawa invited Darryl Brenzel to adapt Igor Stravinsky’s radical orchestral ballet “The Rite of Spring” for a modern 17-piece jazz big band, no one really knew what was going to happen. There were, after all, riots at the piece’s 1913 Paris premiere.

Fortunately, when Brenzel’s creation was unveiled at Baltimore’s Metro Gallery on May 12, 2010, the audience kept their seats in rapt attention, consumed by a work as boldly unconventional as Stravinsky’s original. -[Excerpt | Biography]-

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