STEVE SLAGLE & BILL O'CONNELL
WEDNESDAY JULY 29TH
@MEZZROWS
3 sets 9PM -MIDNITE
163 WEST 10TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
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Artist: STEVE SLAGLE & BILL O’CONNELL
Title: THE POWER OF TWO
Label: PANORAMA RECORDS 005
Release Date: JUNE 5, 2015
UP Code: 8 88295 24575 3
Track listing, track times
1. Good News (Slagle) 4:10
2. One Life (Slagle) 6:07
3. Peri’s Scope (Evans) 3:44
4. I’ll Wait and Pray (Valentine/Treadwell) 3:56
5. A New Day (O’Connell) 5:07
6. KD JR. (Slagle) 7:05
(Written in memory of Kenny Drew Jr.)
7. The Power of Two (Slagle) 4:26
8. The Duke (Brubeck) 5:17
9. Circle (Davis) 6:48
10. Into Your Grace (Slagle) 5:25
11. Whistling Spirits (Slagle/O’Connell) 0:56
Musicians:
Steve Slagle-alto saxophone, flute Bill O’Connell-piano
Alto
saxophone and flutist Steve Slagle’s career on the New York City world
stage has spanned the grammy winning large orchestras of Mingus, Haden
and Lovano to contemporary quartets with Steve Kuhn, Dave Stryker and
many more. Never before has he paired it down to a duo until now with
The Power of Two.
The
collaboration with pianist Bill O’Connell was a natural one after the
many Latin-Jazz recordings Steve has done recently with Bill, who is the
quiet giant on piano of his generation. Alone together they create some
of their best, most unique work to date. At first starting the idea of
this date with his tribute to the late great virtuoso pianist Kenny Drew
Jr. -Steve wrote ‘KD JR.’ on the day of his friends passing—they
collectively go further to create the sound of musical spirits
past,present, and future.
What
sounds effortless is a level of musicianship that only a few achieve
after decades of work in their profession: hearing the music, listening
to each other and inspiring each other to create and play music that
never quite existed like this before—and capturing it in a recording. We
hope you enjoy and get the musical message that is within ‘The Power of
Two’.
—Jack Zulack, Executive Producer, Panorama Records
World
-renowned saxophone/ flutist and grammy award winning musician Steve
Slagle here is paying tribute to his musical relationship with pianists
both past and present. Steve’s last release on Panorama ‘Evensong’ was
picked ‘top 50 cds of 2013’ by Jazztimes. As Downbeat magazine says:
“Slagle and group are such masters, the music feels so good it
consequently makes you feel good”.
Artist Websites:
www.steveslagle.com www.billoconnell.net/dates.htm
AVAILABLE FROM: CDBaby / Amazon / iTunes
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