TONY BRANKER LP For the Children JAZZ (private pressing)
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Vinyl is in M- condition. Labels are brilliant and clean, record very glossy.
Cover is M- condition, STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINK. Really quite beautiful.
Extremely rare privately pressed debut album.
Anthony Branker is an Origin Records recording artist/composer who leads the group Anthony Branker & Ascent, a jazz collective formed in 2004 dedicated to the performance of original new music by its founder, which has featured some of the most significant jazz artists working today. The ensemble will be releasing its third recording project, Dance Music, on the Origin Records label on November 16, 2010, which will feature performances by alto saxophonist Tia Fuller, tenor & soprano saxophonist Ralph Bowen, trombonist Clifford Adams Jr., pianist Jonny King, bassist Kenny Davis, drummer Adam Cruz, guitarist Freddie Bryant, and Estonia vocalist Kadri Voorand. The group’s first CD project Spirit Songs - with alto & soprano saxophonist Antonio Hart, Bowen, Adams, King, bassist John Benitez, and drummer Ralph Peterson - was released internationally in 2006 on the Sons of Sound record label and was cited by the Jazz Journalists Association as one of the “Top 10 new jazz releases for 2006” with the composition “Imani (Faith)” being named one of the “Top 10 best new compositions of the year.” Blessings, the collective’s second CD, which featured alto saxophonist Steve Wilson, Bowen, Adams, vibraphonist Bryan Carrott, King, bassist Belden Bullock, conguero Renato Thoms, and drummer Wilby Fletcher, was released on Origin Records, the 2009 JazzWeek “Record Label of the Year,” and was named to the First Round in the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Balloting in the “Best Jazz Instrumental Album” category, along with Branker’s composition ‘Crystal Angel’ for “Best Instrumental Composition,” and Ralph Bowen’s soprano saxophone feature on Branker’s composition ‘The Holy Innocent’ for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo.”
As a composer, Branker has received composition prizes, commissions, served as composer-in-residence, and has had his music featured in performance at the Pori International Jazz Festival (Finland), Leningrad/St. Petersburg International Jazz Festival (Russia), Kaunas International Jazz Festival (Lithuania), Estonia International Jazz Festival (Estonia), Mt. Fuji International Jazz Festival (Japan), JVC Jazz Festival (New York); concert and club appearances in China, Russia, France, and Germany; as well as in performance at such venues as the Iridium Jazz Club, Sweet Basil Jazz Club, The Five Spot, New York’s Symphony Space, the Fez under the Time Café, Trumpets Jazz Club, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. In addition, his music has appeared on National Public Radio, was spotlighted at the International Jazz Composers Symposium at the University of South Florida, and has been performed by the Shanghai Jazz Orchestra in Shanghai, China. His works have been performed and/or recorded by Steve Nelson, Stanley Jordan, Talib Kibwe, Conrad Herwig, Mark Gross, Curtis Lundy, James Weidman, Steve Kroon, Rick Margitza, Jann Parker, and the Spirit of Life Ensemble and have featured such guest soloists as Kenny Barron, Eddie Henderson, Winard Harper, John Hicks, Valery Ponomarev, Joe Ford, Cecil Brooks III, Onaje Allen Gumbs, Alex Blake, Sarah Jane Cion, and Benny Carter.
Dr. Branker holds the endowed chair of the Anthony H.P Lee ’79 Senior Lecturer in Jazz Studies, is Founder/Director of the Program in Jazz Studies, and serves as Associate Director of the Program in Musical Performance at Princeton University, where he directs an extensive list of ensembles and teaches courses in jazz theory through improvisation & composition, jazz performance practice in historical and cultural context, jazz composition, and the evolution of jazz styles. He has served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia and has also been a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, Hunter College of the City University of New York, Ursinus College, and the New Jersey Summer Arts Institute.
TRACK LIST;
A1 CIRCLES 5:50
A2 A DREAM DEFERRED 6:32
A3 YOU CAN'T PLAY IN THE RAIN 1:31
A4 UNICORN 10:09
B1 FOR THE CHILDREN 2:05
B2 FRIENDSHIPS AND RAINBOWS 6:29
B3 LIFT ME HIGHER 9:39
B4 BLACK ON BLACK 2:51
B5 DO DAT 3:34
TONY BRANKER- TRUMPET, FLUGELHORN
GLENN CASHMAN - ALTO, SOPRANO & TENOR SAX
JOHN DOLAN - TRUMPET on "A DREAM DEFERRED"
GARY MONHEIT - PIANO
STAN JORDAN - GUITAR
DAN KRIMM - BASS
JEFF PENNEY - DRUMS
Produced by Tony Branker
Recorded at Matrixound in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania April 25 & 26, 1980.
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