Name: 02 Avalon by The Marbles Jazz Band
Duration: 5 min 24 s
Description: The Loose Marbles Jazz Band live in Providence, RI, 9 October 2015.

Throw It Away (Abbey Lincoln) live @ WIAM

The Loose Marbles Jazz Band live in Providence, RI, 9 October 2015.

02 Avalon

The Source Of Now (excerpt)

A song of playful banter from Komitas. A girl, acting coy, teases her young admirer. She calls attention to her lushly embroidered dress, mentions her disapproving father, and shows off the gold ring already offered to her beneath a shady tree.

Seven Springs 20151121

Tsolak Jan

Award-winning soul, blues and R&B vocalist Curtis Salgado’s earth-shaking vocals and forceful harmonica playing have been devastating audiences around the world for over 30 years. Guitarist Alan Hager has been wowing fellow musicians from his hometown of Portland, Oregon and beyond for decades. Hager has been jamming with Salgado since 2003, and joined his band full-time in 2015. Together, the two blues fans and friends took time out of their busy touring schedule to record Rough Cut, a stripped-down album featuring a potent mix of newly written, timeless originals and carefully chosen blues covers. “We did it for the love of the music,” says Salgado. “This is where our hearts are. These are deep songs that we love to play.”  

That love comes through loud and clear on Rough Cut. Produced by Salgado and Hager, the 13 songs on the album (including six originals) range from plaintive to playful. Recorded in one live unrehearsed take, the original I Will Not Surrender, with its haunting and sparse soundscape, showcases some of Hager’s strongest guitar work, and some of the most profoundly emotive vocals Salgado has ever laid down. The canine-lover’s anthem, I Want My Dog To Live Longer (The Greatest Wish), is already a huge fan favorite. Salgado’s soulful singing and Hager’s elegant slide guitar playing shine on Elmore James’ You Got To Move and Muddy Waters’ I Can’t Be Satisfied. “He’s the best player in the business, unlike anybody else,” Salgado says of Hager. “One reason I made this record was to show him off.”

Curtis Salgado Vocals, Harmonica, Piano (10) 
Alan Hager Guitars, Vocal (11)
with 
LaRhonda Steele Vocals (8)
Jim Pugh Piano (3)
Keith Brush Bass (5, 9, 13)
Russ Kleiner Drums (5, 9)
Jimi Bott  Drums (3)
Brian Foxworth Drums (8)
Carlton Jackson percussion (12)

Produced by Curtis Salgado and Alan Hager 
Recorded  by Dennis Carter at Falcon Recording Studios, Portland, OR 
Mixed by Johnny Lee Schell at Ultra Tone Studios, Studio City, CA
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, Burbank, CA 
Notes by Marc Lipkin 
Photos by Jessica Keaveny
Packaging design by Kevin Niemiec  

Management: Shane Tappendorf, Odaglas LLC, odaglasllc@gmail.com Booking:  Intrepid Artists, staff@intrepidartists.com 
www.curtissalgado.com  

Special Thanks to Erika Olsen, Mike Crider, Kathy Goranson, Suzanne Dominique, Katey Angel,  Wendy and Philip Salgado, Richard Shurman, Jordan Pollack, Marlon McClain, Tony Braunagel,  Ross Hamilton, Rand Gerlach, Bruce Iglauer and the staff at Alligator Records.  

Curtis Salgado plays Hohner Harmonicas customized by Joe Filisko
Alan Hager plays a 1918 Martin 0-18, Gibson Custom Shop ES 330 and Gibson Custom Shop SG

Rough Cut

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Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager - I Will Not Surrender

Pink Martini’s fourth studio album – Splendor In The Grass – encapsulates the band’s history and spirit of global collaboration and inclusivity. Comprised of nine original songs and four covers (with songs in English, Neapolitan, Italian, French and Spanish), Splendor In The Grass was recorded in the band’s hometown of Portland, Oregon and produced by bandleader/pianist Thomas Lauderdale and longtime collaborator and muse Alex Marashian—a college cohort of Lauderdale and vocalist China Forbes.

1. Ninna nanna
2. Ohayoo Ohio
3. Splendor in the Grass
4. Oú est ma tête?
5. And Then You’re Gone
6. But Now I’m Back
7. Sunday Table
8. Over the Valley
9. Tuca tuca
10. Bitty Boppy Betty
11. Sing
12. Piensa en mi
13. New Amsterdam
14. Ninna nanna (reprise)


12 Piensa En Mi

Mute are delighted to announce the signing of Yann Tiersen and the release of his brand new, long awaited album, Dust Lane, out on 4 October 2010. 

Hailing from Brittany, Yann Tiersen is one of the most revered artists of his generation with a reputation first established by his studio albums (which include 1998's Le Phare and 2005's Les Retrouvailles) and cemented by his work on the original film score of Amelie (2001) which earned him widespread recognition. 

Produced by Yann Tiersen and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Rós, M83, Moby), Dust Lane sees Tiersen incorporate vintage electronic sounds and textures into his music for an album he describes as "a journey on the dusty lane that leads us to death. Not a sad thing, but like a colourful, sometimes painful, but mostly joyful experience: life!"

Yann Tiersen - Ashes (edit)

grabado por alain Henriot en sonido del pueblo

Cinema Paradiso

Smoking Time Jazz Club - Percolatin' Blues

Concert de Tigran Hamasyan à la Sapinière

The Legend of The Moon - Tigran Hamasyan

Lhasa Live in Reykjavik

La Confession (Live)

The Marbles Jazz Band comprises Preston McClanahan, bass, leader; Carl Gerhard, trumpet; Richard Carbone, piccolo, clarinet; Ron L'Herault, trombone, vocals; Tim Mahoney, Banjo; Nick Ribush, piano; Larry Michetti, drums. 

Contact us: marblesjazz@gmail.com

02 Avalon

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