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
Xuefei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Or
Laura Serra
Michael Cretu
Kenneth Hamilton
John Turner & Neil Smith
Duncan Honeybourne
Alan Barnes & Don Weller
Joseph Skypala, Anna Gregg, Rosalie Curlett, Belfast Sinfonia, Icon Strings
Stephane Kerecki; Marc Copland; Tore Brunborg; Fabrice Moreau; Ralph Alessi
Quatuor Hanson; Philippe Hattat; Theo Fouchenneret; Emmanuel Jacquet; Rodolphe Thery
Ensemble Fractales; Elis Hallik
Ensemble InterContemporain
Carla Rees, RSNO Wind Ensemble
Silvia Tarozzi; Deborah Walker; Julia Eckrardt
Orchestre Victor Hugo; Orchestre National de Bretagne
Alexej Gerassimez, SIGNUM saxophone quartet
