First meeting & playing together in Paris in the early '90s, Portland-based drummer Alan Jones knew he had found a life-long musical partner in the Montreal-born, Paris-based saxophonist, François Théberge. After multiple tours, recordings and musical discussions over the years, their decision to devote an album to all original music - with lyrics - came from one of those discussions. Noting how beautiful and intregal the human voice is to music, they wrote new compositions expressing miniature impressions, souvenirs, and feelings, while blurring the line between improvised and written moments. Rooted in jazz, they stroll seamlessly through other neighborhoods with a wide-range of accompanying master musicians, yet retain an intimate musical space for vocalists Marilyn Keller and Rebecca Kilgore to shine.
Track Listing:
1 The Better Question 2:58
2 Another View 3:56
3 Movin' On 3:57
4 Little Candel 2:44
5 The Fighter 3:38
6 Muted 4:27
7 One More Time Around 6:12
8 Blue 4:19
9 I Will Be There 5:15
10 South 4:11
11 Refuge 6:01
12 Sweets 6:03
13 What's It Gonna Be 3:41
Performers:
ALAN JONES - drums, voice (7)
FRANCOIS THEBERGE - tenor & soprano saxes, recorders, wood flute, trombone
MARILYN KELLER - voice
REBECCA KILGORE - voice (9), whistle (4)
DAN TEPFER - piano, fender rhodes
TOM WAKELING - bass
GLEN MOORE - bass
JA'TIK CLARK - tuba
DAN BALMER - guitar
JOHN GROSS - tenor saxophone
LARS CAMPBELL - trombone
TIM BRYSON - bass clarinet
JOHN MOAK - trombone
JON RAMM-GRAMENZ - trombone
MATT WARMING - trombone
IAN KERR - percussion
ERIN WINEMILLER - cello
MATTIE KAISER - viola (Portland)
JEREMY GENET - viola
ANNE-SOPHIE LIBRA - cello (Paris)
Production Info:
Produced by Alan Jones and François Thèberge
Recorded by Dean Baskerville, Sacha Müller, Mike Moore, Christophe Dal Sasso
Recorded at Kung Fu Bakery, Portland, OR on February 21-23, 2010;
DaoSound Studios, Paris, Nov. 2 / Dec. 17, 2011, Jan. 30, 2012;
Dead Aunt Thelma's, Portland, OR on Feb 20/23, & June 26/27, 2012
Mixed by Dean Baskerville at Dead Aunt Thelma's, Portland, OR
Mastered by Nick Moon at Tone Proper Mastering, Portland, OR
Cover design & layout by John Bishop
Reviews of Another View
Midwest Record (Chris Spector)
Two long time musical kindred spirits decide to go for it on an all original date for jazz orchestra that's heavy on the art jazz so much so that it's almost like a ricochet from the 50s. Programmed almost like a show, this is a set that colors widely outside the lines defying expectations swinging for the fences in the way that records that don ...
