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January 27, 2005

Jazz + Pavement?

According to the Matador Board, jazz musician Cyrus Chestnut and others have recorded Pavement covers, including “Trigger Cut” (which you can hear here) for a new jazz album called “Gold Sounds.” From the label:

Brown Brothers Recordings is proud to announce the preparation of our first full-length album. "Gold Sounds", featuring James Carter (saxophones and sousaphone the contrabass sarrusophone), Cyrus Chestnut (keyboards), Reginald Veal (bass) and Ali Jackson (percussion) was recorded this past September 14-17 at Electric Lady Studio B in New York City. The album, recorded and engineered by Steven "Val" Mandel (D'Angelo, Roy Hargrove, E. Badu, Rod Hohl, etc.) and mixed at Bear Creek Studios in Washington by Ryan Hadlock (Stephen Malkmus, Elvin Jones, etc.), features these stellar jazz musicians performing their versions of songs by the band Pavement.

Complete song list: 1) My First Mine; 2) Here; 3) Summer Babe; 4) Cut Your Hair; 5) 5-4=Unity; 6) Stereo; 7) Blue Hawaiian; 8) Platform Blues; 9) Folk Jam; and 10) Trigger Cut.

Update:

"Hi, Tim; On your January 27, 2005 post you mention James Carter. James Carter plays saxophones and the contrabass sarrusophone. You have him listed as playing the sousaphone, but a sousaphone is from the tuba family. The sarrusophone is from the woodwind family, and can be played with a single reed like a saxophone, or with a double reed like a contrabassoon.

Best Regards, Steven

Steven Lederman Technical Assistant Fordstar Studios"

Posted by timothompson at January 27, 2005 02:18 PM