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 Artist: STEVE JOHNS
Title: FAMILY
Label: STRIKEZONE RECORDS 8811
Artist Website: www.stevejohnsjazz.com
Release Date: MAY 5, 2015
UP Code: 888295228718
Track listing, track times
1. Sleepwalk (Johns) w/Dave Stryker 6:51
2. So You Say (Holmes) w/Bob DeVos 6:39
3. Shadowboxing (Stryker) w/Dave Stryker 7:26
4. Bogie And Bacall (Johns) w/Dave Stryker 7:17
5. Came To Believe (Stryker) w/Dave Stryker 6:21 6. Mixing (Moreira) w/Dave Stryker 4:37
7. DKJ (Johns) w/Bob DeVos 6:55
8. Shell Game (DeVos) w/Bob DeVos 6:48
9. Chunk (Johns/Holmes) w/ Bob DeVos 3:28
Musicians:
Steve Johns-drums, Debbie Keefe Johns-saxophones, Daryl Johns-bass, Dave Stryker-guitar,
Bob DeVos-guitar
Produced by: Dave Stryker Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by: Chris Sulit at Trading Eights Studio, Paramus NJ Aug. 26 2014
“Steve
Johns is a master drummer and bandleader. His bass playing son Daryl
Johns and saxophonist wife Debbie Johns are amazing. Stellar debut and
Steve proves, drummers are musicians, and pretty good producers too.
Great musical Family” —Lenny White
A tightly knit modern quartet with a great feel, original tunes, arrangements and soloists! —Randy Brecker
After
three decades as a key contributor to groups led by some of jazz’s
greatest luminaries, Steve Johns has at last made his first recording as
leader. In an era when it seems that every aspiring young jazz player,
whether ready or not, feels the need to come out with his or her own
recording, for someone of Steve’s abilities and experience to wait so
long is almost unheard of.
Why now?
Steve
explains: “I’ve reached this pivotal point in my life where our son,
[bassist] Daryl Johns, is leaving home to attend the Manhattan School of
Music. I wanted to capture our magic as a musical family in a bottle
before he left for college. So my CD idea was born.”
Apart
from the stellar music, what makes Family so compelling is that it is
“family.” Joining Steve are his wife, the talented saxophonist Debbie
Keefe Johns, and their son Daryl, at eighteen, already one of the most
sought-after bassists in jazz. Guitarists Dave Stryker, who produced the
recording, and Bob DeVos contributed greatly to the project’s success.
While not related, Steve considers them “like family.”
Steve
Johns’ recording debut as leader is an auspicious one and well worth
the wait. And while he’ll undoubtedly continue to enhance the work of
others, I hope he’ll step into the spotlight more often to showcase his
own unique talents as player and composer. As Dave Stryker observes,
“The best compliment you can give a musician is that he sounds like
himself. Steve’s been around long enough so that he’s developed his own
sound; he’s not trying to be anything other than Steve Johns, which is
the way it should be.
Steve Johns’ recording debut as a leader is an auspicious one and well worth the wait!
(edited from Ed Berger’s liner notes)
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