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Nocturne (Chopin)

Waltz (Chopin)

Piano Prelude Op. 34 No. 6 (D. Shostakovich, arr. P. Farrell)

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Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction.  Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.  

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting.  "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.  

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price.  Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

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Ben Holmes is a trumpet player and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. His current projects are the Ben Holmes Quartet, Trio Blastphemy, Tarras Band, and the Ben Holmes/Patrick Farrell Duo. 

Born in Ithaca, NY in 1979, Holmes has lived in New York since 2001. Showing "the deft imagination that's mandatory for today's top brass," (John Corbett, Downbeat Magazine), Holmes enjoys music from many points in time and space, having a special attraction to Jazz, Klezmer, and Romani music. His studies have been quite varied, including jazz & classical performance and composition, work with American Klezmer master Peter Sokolow, and field study with the Romani brass musicians Ekrem Sajdic and Vranski Biseri in rural southern Serbia. He combines these interests with his study of classical harmony and a love of improvisation and freedom in music to present a unique constellation of influences to both his playing and compositions. Both of Holmes' releases as a leader, 2012's "Anvil of the Lord" (Skirl Records) and 2009's "Ben Holmes Trio" (self-released) garnered significant critical praise, including four-star reviews for both records in DownBeat Magazine. 

Recent Press for 'Anvil of the Lord':
John Corbett (Downbeat): "Ben Holmes shows the deft imagination that's mandatory for today's top brass." (4/5 star review) 
Dave Summer (Bird is the Worm): "If there's one word emblematic of trumpeter Ben Holmes' sophomore release Anvil of the Lord, it would be 'propulsion' ... this is a really wonderful recording. Highly recommended." 
Paul de Barros (Downbeat): "His rich, round trumpet sound and immaculate articulation are something to behold... even better, this music swings hard." 
Sean Fitzell (The New York City Jazz Record): "On just his second release as a leader, Holmes establishes himself as a performer and composer to note, craftily expressing a range of emotion and influence". 
Brent Black (Critical Jazz): "Nine originals capture the improvisational magic and sonic cohesion rarely heard from a quartet."

The Ben Holmes Quartet currently has a monthly residency at Barbès in Brooklyn, one of the key incubators in the modern Jazz/Improv/Creative music scene in NYC. Holmes describes his writing for the Quartet as "inspired by things like Czech folklore, poor Amtrak service, the swimming holes of New Jersey, the films of John Carpenter, portentous budget documents from right before the economic collapse, crime reports from the late 19th Century, déjà vu, love, death, taxes, and various other things that might not be apparent since the music is all instrumental". A breadth of influences combined with a well-developed group concept and an embrace of spontaneity create a sound that is at once expansive and experimental but rooted in musical tradition. In addition to the quartet, which features Curtis Hasselbring on trombone, Matt Pavolka on bass and Vinnie Sperrazza on drums, he also co-leads Tarras Band, dedicated to the music of Yiddish-American clarinet legend Dave Tarras; the Ben Holmes/Patrick Farrell Duo, NYC's premier Klezmer/Folk/Spaghetti Western/Improv/Pop/Waltz/Balkan/Freak-Out Trumpet and Accordion Duo; and Trio Blastphemy, a collective chamber-sized brass band with Curtis Hasselbring on trombone and Marcus Rojas on tuba. He currently works as a sideman with the Asphalt Orchestra, Banda de los Muertos, Romashka, Brooklyn Qawwali Party, Cynthia Hopkins, One Ring Zero, Michael Hearst's Songs for Unusual Creatures, and Justin Mullens' Delphian Orchestra.

Piano Prelude Op. 34 No. 6 (D. Shostakovich, arr. P. Farrell)

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