For my oldest friend: soul sister Jeni Presnall.  I will carry you in my heart forever.  Sweet travels to your next destination.  Thank you for many gifts of open heart, courage and creativity.  Love Niki

Jeni's Lullaby Love Niki

Recorded at Rendell Memorial Church,
on the Afternoon Jazz Series curated by Craig Harris
 NY, NY
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FV - voice
Darius Jones - alto saxophone
Kenny Wessel - guitar
Sean Conly - double bass




Broken Shadows(O. Coleman) - In Praise of Ornette

Featured in a program I put together called New Blues Views for Jazz Appreciation Month at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, CA. April 2, 2016. 

Fay Victor - vocal, composer
Marika Hughes - cello
Darren Johnson - trumpet
Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass

Night Ties is a tune written by myself and Jochem van Dijk for the Fay Victor Ensemble and is featured on the Free Song Suite from 2009. 

@Zootoon Publishing (ASCAP)



Night Ties - New Blues Views

Live at the 55 BAR - March 31, 2016
Fay Victor - vocals
Darius Jones - alto saxophone
Kenny Wessel - guitar
Sean Conly - double bass

Ornette Coleman - composer


Law Years - In Praise of Ornette

produced/written by sNeak aTtack....
2015

For the times. Today.


The Angst Of Now - sNeak aTtack

This piece is dedicated to monster bassists Peter Kowald and William Parker and centers around Peter Kowald's passing on to the next realm, based on a stry I heard from William Parker's wife that stunned and stayed with me to the point that I HAD to write a piece about it.  Around the same time myself and Bay area bassist/composer/curator Lisa Mezzacappa started collaborating, agreeing to co-write most of the music for our budding trio.  This was one of the first pieces I wrote us.

FV - voice, composition
Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass
John Finkbeiner - electric guitar

Patience (Waiting for William)

The ExPosed Blues DUO expanded to a TRIO right before Xmas at the 55BAR, adding Tim Dahl(of Child Abuse) into the mix.  It turned out to be a steamy, heady brew.  You can judge for yourself here with this live, brittle, rough version of the classic Rev. Gary Davis Blues done in a new way - I start it off and its improvised from scratch.

FV-voice
Anders Nilsson-electric guitar, effects
Tim Dahl-bass guitar, effects
December 23, 2011
The 55BAR
Recorded LIVE...

 

If I Had My Way

Down By The Riverside (Blurred)

Creative Folks! is a selection from the upcoming album by Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK coming out on ESP-Disk in Spring 2018. This particular selection is a calling to arms of all creative people feel the community and how precious being creative is...in times like these.

SoundNoiseFUNK is
Fay Victor - conceptualist, text, voice
Sam Newsome - soprano saxophone
Joe Morris - electric guitar
Reggie Nicholson - drums

Creative Folks! from SoundNoiseFUNK Wet Robots

Stop by here to check out fresh sounds of my working groups - the Fay Victor Ensemble, Herbie Nichols SUNG, The ExPosed Blues DUO, tracks w/pianists Elisabeth Harnik, Misha Mengelberg.  Below is a little about me...

Fay Victor has been hailed by the New York Times as “artistically complete” for her unique vocal approach to the blues, jazz, free improvisation and her own original material. Starting from the jazz tradition, Victor has gone on to encompass a multi-genre approach to music, lyrics and song called “Freesong.” She has released seven critically acclaimed recordings as a leader, toured extensively throughout Europe as well as Japan, India, Russia, and Mexico and has worked with a veritable who's-who of musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Amiri Baraka, Misha Mengelberg, William Parker, Laurence “Butch' Morris, Gary Lucas, Roswell Rudd, Dave Burrell, Han Bennink, Tyshawn Sorey and more. 


Creative Folks! from SoundNoiseFUNK Wet Robots

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