Brain in a Dish, by Steve Swell

Brain in a Dish

by Steve Swell

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1.	Brain in a Dish 07:38	info	buy track
2.	New Use for Old Neurons 06:32		buy track
3.	Feed Me! 02:53		buy track
4.	Just Another Alogism 04:19		buy track
5.	Tastier Than Oranges 09:27		buy track
6.	No Heavy Perfumes 02:08		buy track
7.	How Do You Like Yours? 06:15		buy track
8.	Fried or Roasted 05:38		buy track
9.	See Our Ad 02:18		buy track
10.	Trepanation Trepidation 09:20		buy track
11.	Psychopath in a Church Pew 04:07		buy track

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"The jazz life imposes a stark choice on musicians. Knuckle under to commercial pressures and cease to be who you truly are, or be who you are and labor in obscurity. Steve Swell long ago made his choice. It's a hard choice but a liberating one and Swell has taken full advantage of the freedom with which he's chosen to make his art. "I've got nothing to lose," he says, "so I just do what I do."
Swell does a lot with the limitless creative leeway he claims for himself. Take this album, for instance. He makes some surprising choices. As a free musician in every sense of the term, Swell, a composer of great power, wit, and skill, elects not to use composition at all on this album; it's completely improvised. A horn player who frequently collaborates with other horn plavers both as a leader and a sideman, he decided not to use a second wind instrument in this trio. The only thing remotely suggesting a game plan for the session was he knew he wanted keyboardist Robert Boston to play organ in addition to piano. Swell is not exactly a stranger to free improvisation, but when he elects to do it, he knows what's at stake and exactly why he wants to do it. "I just wanted to go into this session unencumbered and see what we came up with," he says. "To allow the magic to happen."
Not surprisingly, given the caliber of the musicians involved, the magic does indeed happen. One reason the magic happens is that Swell knows how to put together bands in which everyone clicks: it's an aspect of his leadership that isn't cited enough. In choosing drummer Michael Vatcher and keyboardist Robert Boston, he's assembled a trio with quick reflexes, plenty of imagination, and total command of their instruments. Most importantly, there's never any wrestling over control of the music, the music is in charge and they let it take them where it will."
Ed Hazell from the liner notes

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released October 24, 2019

Steve Swell, trombone
Robert Boston, piano/organ
Michael Vatcher, drums

All compositions by Steve Swell (Steve Swell Music BMI), Robert Boston (Entropee Music ASCAP), Michael Vatcher
Recorded on August 16th, 2018 at Park West Studios, Brooklyn, New York by Jim Clouse
Released on NoBusiness (NBCD 121) 2019

Mixed by Jim Clouse
Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios
Liner notes by Ed Hazell
Photo by Peter Gannushkin / DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET
Design by Oskaras Anosovas
Produced by Steve Swell and Danas Mikailionis
Co-prodecer - Valerij Anosov

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Steve Swell New York, New York

Born in Newark, NJ, Trombonist/Composer Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. He has toured and recorded with diverse jazz personalities from Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich to "outsiders" Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor. Steve has received numerous awards and grants. ... more

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