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Tracks from the new Stratos Ensemble in 2013, soon to be released on CD and/or download in 2014.

The Stratos Ensemble - Yet To Be Released And Free Downloads

The first track we recorded with our current bass player in the new line up, and unreleased. All improvised.  Presently unreleased music but building towards a second album. The organ solo on this track was not played by Dean, but rather the sax player Jim Goetsch.

First album here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stratoensemble

Buy Our Last CD

Royce - The Stratos Ensemble (organ and sax solo by Jim Goetsch)

From the founder of Surface 10:
The Stratos Ensemble reformation is starting to come together.  Won't be long before material for a new CD is formed.  This track won't make it to the CD because of technical difficulties, but it's a perfectly good track, given away for free.  The fender rhodes solo on this song was not played by Dean but rather the sax player Jim Goetsch. Totally improvised; two keyboardists and an ensemble.  High quality mp3.

Personal:
Brock Bowers - drums
Kent Baxter - bass
Jim Goetch - sax & fender rhodes
Dean De Benedictis - keyboards and production
Anjelo Alonte - Violin

Fruits Of Friction - The Stratos Ensemble (rhodes and sax solo by Jim Goetsch)

The first ever compilation track by The Stratos Ensemble, featured on the comp album Touched Two.

Whole album:
http://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-two

Stratos Ensemble track:
http://touched.bandcamp.com/track/my-broken-key-part-2

For A Good Cause

My Broken Key (Part 2) - The Stratos Ensemble (compilation track)

Hello, I’m Mr Lob from The New Jazz Collective and my partner JC (from Play Jazz Loud) and I have delved deep into Millennium Jazz Music’s back catalogue of The Jazz Jousters to put together this special mix of our favourite Jousters tracks. Big up’s to Gadget and all the Jousters for the continuous great music, and to Jimmy Mac for inviting us to do this. Please check out The New Jazz Collective on mixloud.com. Sit back relax and enjoy.

Mr Lob

https://www.mixcloud.com/TheNewJazzCollective/

Special thanks go to Ana Beraru for providing amazing artwork yet again.

Mr. Lob Set
1. Aleksander Koziel-Crystal Jazz 
2. B3NBi-Krustallos 
3. Dj Mentos-Speaking In Tongues 
4. EsK-So Much More 
5. SmokedBeat-Dillin' 
6. Blue Buttonz-Waking Up In Brazil 
7. Gadget-A.M Regions (Prelude) 
8. Slugga Tee-Love & Hate 
9.Jaze Baqti-Jazz Mess 
10. DR.MAD ft. Tehru-Under The Goods 
11. Oldy Clap Records-Formaggi 
12. Rick Mal-Upstreamin'’
PJL Set
13. Blue Buttonz - The All Blue
14. DRTYDRDZ - Acien Amour
15. Gadget - Stan Getz Flipped
16. Unseen & Deeflux - Got Me Thinkin' feat Gadget
17. B 3 N B i - Earlee Birdee (Artifacts Mash-Up)
18. Wriggly Scott - More Green
19. Mr. Moods - Perfect Dinner with Dorothy
20. DRTYDRDZ ft DJ Bamboo – ColorBlind


More Shows

The New Jazz Collective Digs The Jazz Jousters [ Podcast ]

A recent jazz/ambient improv session (and yes, it was completely improvised) performed by 3 members of the Stratos Ensemble. This was essentially a practice session, but came out great and was recorded, so it is our gift to you.

Dean De Benedictis - piano, synth and atmospheres
Coco Roussel - drums and drum pads
Rod MacDowell - bass

Only small portions of this session will make it to albums and the rest will never be made available,  so feel free--download it while it's still here.

Band website:
http://thestratosensemble.com

Photo by Dean in Patagonia, 2008.

Stratos Ensemble Session (free download) - Electro Acoustic Trio Improv - Dean, Coco & Rod

Tracklist: http://bit.ly/roy-ayers-75

Celebrating the 75th birthday of Mr Roy Ayers with this mix, showcasing some of my favourite tracks from his slightly lesser known material… Well, I mean compared to tracks like Everybody 
Loves The Sunshine, Searching, We Live In Brooklyn, Running Away, Love Will Bring Us Back Together…

I also hear new stuff that I hadn’t noticed before when I listen to his music - the track with Jack Wilson that opens the mix up is so heavy and cosmic for its time, and I’d forgotten about the track with Wayne Henderson! There are so many great albums out there including the 2 Virgin Ubiquities BBE put out... We could devote a whole week of radio programmes to Roy, his archive is so large… 

He is the key to all things between jazz, soul, disco and hip hop…. Thank you roy for all the music...


Tracklist

Roy Ayers 75th Birthday Mix

Submotion Orchestra November jazz mixtape

To mark our closing performance at this year London Jazz Festival, we’ve put together a mix of some of our favourite and most influential jazz artists from the 50s up to the present day

0.00 ‘Glory to the Sun’ – The Awakening (Black Jazz)
0.43 ‘Awakening’ – The Mike Westbrook Concert Band (Deram)
4.08 ‘Equinox’ – John Coltrane (Atlantic)
12.35 ‘Ode To Ethiopia’ – The John Betsch Society (Strata-East)
16.50 ‘Chant’ – Doug Carn (Strata-East)
21.19 ‘Summer Goddess’ – Soil & “Pimp” Sessions (Victor)
25.53 ‘Maimoun’ – Marion Brown (Impulse!)
30.16 ‘Echoes’ – Leon Thomas (Flying Dutchman)
35.47 ‘Lullaby for a Lonely Child’ – The Graham Collier Sextet (Fontana)
41.19 ‘Mahjong’ – Wayne Shorter (Blue Note)
48.36 ‘Arrastao’ – Dom Salvador Trio (Mr.Bongo)
51.25 ‘Murilley’ – Charles Earland (Muse)
57.41 ‘Kofi’ – Donald Byrd (Blue Note)
1.05.16 ‘Come Live With Me’ – Dorothy Ashby (Cadet)
1.07.48 ‘Tibetan Serenity’ – Travis Biggs (Universal Sound)
1.11.48 ‘#1’ – DJ Krush (Mo’ Wax)
1.16.15 ‘Up Above the Rock’ – Ray Bryant (Cadet)
1.19.12 ‘Golden Ring’ – American Gypsy (Chess)
1.23.32 ‘Fourth Wall’ – Hidden Orchestra (Tru Thoughts)
1.27.24 ‘Hopopono’ – Gogo Penguin (Gondwana)
1.31.07 ‘Visions IV’ – Triosk (Leaf)
1.35.03 ‘City of Glass’ – Portico Quartet (Real World)
1.41.28 ‘These Goodbyes’ – Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra (Gondwana)
1.44.07 ‘Galaxy in Turiya’ – Alice Coltrane with strings (Impulse!)
1.48.37 ‘Take Me to the Water’ – Nina Simone (Philips)
1.51.27 ‘Steal Away to Jesus’ – Bernice Johnson Reagon (Norton)

Jazz Mixtape - EFG London Jazz Festival - Barbican special

After four years of hard work from putting out free downloadable tribute albums every two weeks in season one, to continuing with monthly tributes and building the collective in season two and three, to completing the 10 part Locations cassette tape series, as well as releasing anniversary albums, LP specials, CD's and a 'best of' double 12". The Jazz Jousters have now managed to come up with the first official vinyl album. 

We hope you like it. Keep jousting!
credits
released May 6, 2016 

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MJM100: Endurance by The Jazz Jousters 
Managed and compiled by Gadget 
Mastered by Alastair Ash 
Artwork by James Greenway for Design Greenway (www.designgreenway.com). 

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NOTICE: THESE INSTRUMENTALS ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ALTERNATIVE RECORDINGS WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENT OR A LICENCE!

Vinyl + Digital

Endurance by The Jazz Jousters - Vinyl + Digital Out Now!

This is an unreleased track by the Stratos Ensemble, available here for free download. It is considered a part of their scrap material of 2013, but they were still moved enough by this particular track that sharing it seemed fitting to them. This track was improvised; it will not be released on any album, mainly due to minor audio blemishes in the recording that cannot be removed, which you may or may not notice.

Personnel on this track:
Jim Goetsch - sax
Brock Bowers - drums
Dean De Benedictis - synths and production
Kent Baxter - bass
Anjelo Elonte - violin

Image by our friend Ellen Jantzen, in 2013:
http://www.ellenjantzen.com/

Alt Solace - The Stratos Ensemble (extras of 2013)

A mixtape of curious jazz sounds, curated by John "L.A. Jay" Barnes III. 

Tracklist: 
1)	Sun Ra - El Is a Sound Of Joy
2)	Eric Dolphy - Hat and Beard    
3)	Charles Mingus - A Foggy Day     
4)	Thelonious Monk - Raise Four    
5)	Charles Mingus - Slop     
6)	Sun Ra - Paradise    
7)	Mulata Astatke - Tezeta (Nostalgia)     
8)	Sun Ra - Planet Earth     
9)	Thelonious Monk - Green Chimneys      
10)	Ornette Coleman - Una Muy Bonita      
11)	Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul      

Read the feature here: http://www.waxpoetics.com/?p=31432

Follow John "L.A. Jay" Barnes III : https://twitter.com/john_the_third

Anomalous:  A Jazz Mix by John "L.A. Jay" Barnes III

The Stratos Ensemble is a progressive jazz band, the brainchild of producer Dean De Benedictis. The Fateless Flows Collective was an organization that Dean once ran, but now is simply the brand canopy that represents many of his extended projects, such as collaborations with original FF members and related material. Dean has decided to merge both his Stratos Ensemble content and his general Fateless Flows content on this particular SC page. 

The company name was originally the name of an electronic music collective Dean ran from 2003-05. From 2007-11 there was a plan to relaunch Fateless Flows as a record label, but it fell through. What remains are video channels on Youtube and Vimeo, and this Soundcloud page. Dean keeps his art and content coming, so he still uses the FF brand to release anything he works on that he also maintains rights control of, be it solo efforts or collaborative. Dean also has a separate SC page for his solo material.

Fateless Flows main image by Michael Jantzen and Dean De Benedictis. 

Dean De Benedictis' website can be found here:
http://deandebenedictis.com/

(Michael Jantzen's website:
http://www.michaeljantzen.com/Welcome.html)

Stratos Ensemble Session (free download) - Electro Acoustic Trio Improv - Dean, Coco & Rod

The Stratos Ensemble & Fateless Flows Music