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
Kenneth Hamilton
The Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge & Will Sims
Laura Serra
Kenneth Hamilton
Duncan Honeybourne
Michael Cretu
Volante Opera Productions
Dave Holland, Norma Winstone & London Vocal Project
QOW TRIO
Kaija Saariaho; Jean-Baptiste Barriere
Sven Vath
Leon Dinero Ft. Screechy Dan
Leon Dinero Ft. The Inversions
Gavin Bryars
Frightnrs
