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Call It What You Want

by Russ Nolan

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Neruda 05:47
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My Ship 04:49
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Disjunction 05:36
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Call It What You Want 05:21
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Mi Remedio 06:15
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Jazz is a Four-Letter Word 04:49
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Uncommon Air 07:26
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Cancion Sabrosa 05:03
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Las Teclas Negras 07:27
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Dear Listener,
This is my 5th recording in a 10-year time span as a leader. With the exception of the compositions Call It What You Want–an ethereal modern jazz melody and harmony alternating between 5/8 and 6/8 time signatures— and Jazz is a Four-Letter Word – an up-tempo swinger with a syncopated undercurrent – this recording is another chapter in my study of Latin rhythms and their application to the Modern Jazz harmony I enjoy writing.
My Ship, the only arrangement on this session, is set to a Peruvian Lando and finishes in a 1960’s Coltrane Quartet-style modal vamp.
I wrote Mi Remedio (a Cha-Cha) for my most beautiful and excellent wife, Luzviminda Remedios Caparas. She is a nurse practitioner and has certainly been the ‘remedy’ for me!
Cancion Sabrosa (‘Tasty Song’) is a Mambo in Rhumba Clave, while Disjunction (another Mambo in Son Clave) was named for its jagged melody and unpredictable phrase lengths.
Neruda, inspired by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, depicts both his somber, introspective poetry (1st half of the composition) and his more jubilant moods in the festive Mambo that follows.
Las Teclas Negras (The Black Keys) is an E-flat Minor Blues and is played as a medium tempo Mambo in 7/4.
Uncommon Ground was harmonically influenced by Wayne Shorter’s classic Ju Ju and rhythmically by the African Mapale.
Thank you again for continuing with me on this journey and look for a new installment next year!

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released March 1, 2015

ALL COMPOSITIONS BY RUSS NOLAN EXCEPT TRACK 2 written by IRA GERSHWIN (ARR. NOLAN)
RUSS NOLAN – TENOR AND SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, FLUTE
MIKE ECKROTH – PIANO
DANIEL FOOSE – ACOUSTIC BASS
BRIAN FISHLER – DRUMS
VICTOR RENDON – TIMBALES, BONGOS, SHEKERE, SHAKERS,
BATA DRUMS, WOODBLOCKS, AND THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS
YASUYO KIMURA – CONGA AND BATA DRUMS
Recorded October 13, 2014
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Paul Wickliffe
Recorded at Charlestown Road Studios, Hampton, NJ
Mixer and Mastered at Skyline Productions, Warren, NJ

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Russ Nolan New York, New York

Consistently voted onto DownBeat magazine’s Rising Star Annual Critics Poll, NYC Touring Jazz Saxophonist Russ Nolan’s music is often described as High-Energy Modern Jazz that both satisfies the intellect of its musical peers and speaks to everyone on a soulful level. His 2016 release of Sanctuary from the Ordinary-Live@ Firehouse 12 was voted onto DownBeat’s Best of 2016. ... more

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