Release Date: 16 January 2012
Label: Asc Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7395748002274
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'Second-Handed Blues' is the debut album by Adam Fairhall (piano) and Paul J Rogers (electronics, sound sculpture and other instruments). Innovative but highly listenable, the music often includes samples from the far reaches of jazz history - a vocal line from a 1920s vaudeville blues record, or strains from a Scott Joplin rag - and mixes them with contemporary idioms and techniques to create a playful dialogue between styles, eras and technologies.
Adam Fairhall's piano-playing reveals a love of jazz piano from ragtime, boogie and stride to postbop and free jazz. Although this is his first album as co-leader, he is already establishing himself as a creative artist on the British scene. He is the current recipient of the Manchester Jazz Festival's 'Originals' commission, and was selected for edition VI of Serious Production's prestigious Take Five artist development scheme.
Tracklisting
Joseph Skypala, Anna Gregg, Rosalie Curlett, Belfast Sinfonia, Icon Strings
Duncan Honeybourne with Leora Cohen
Paul Corfield Godfrey
Kenneth Hamilton
John Turner, Annabelle Lawson, Lawson Trio, Matthew Scott &
Daryl Runswick
Barre Phillips & Teppo Hauta-Aho
Richard Casey & Ian Buckle
Dave Friedman & Rob Waring
Jacob Karlzon & Rhani Krija
Tomas Sauter & Daniel Schläppi
Sietske
Rudiger Baldauf
Paul Heller, Simon Nabatov, Ingmar Heller & Adam Nussbaum
Matthias Beckmann
Jonathan Gee Trio
