Stomping Off From Greenwood [CD]

Chicago-based alto saxophonist and composer Greg Ward (Tortoise, Lupe Fiasco, McKaya McCraven) presents a new group, Rogue Parade, featuring a quintet of heavyweight creative Chicago musicians: Matt Gold and Dave Miller (guitar & effects), Matt Ulery (bass), and Quin Kirchner (drums). Following his critically acclaimed Greenleaf debut Touch My Beloveds Thought (2016), which was a re-imagining of the music of Charles Mingus, Stomping Off From Greenwood highlights Wards skills as a writer and arranger with a set of eight new compositions that explore this unique two-guitar instrumentation, which blends the acoustic and electronic sonic worlds. The group honed their ensemble sound during a month-long residency in Chicago, followed by extensive touring in the Midwest, before heading into the studio to capture the bands energy on record. In addition to the original material, the band presents Wards moody arrangement of the jazz standard 1) Metropolis 2) Excerpt 1 3) The Contender 4) The Fourth Reverie 5) Let Him Live 6) Black Woods 7) Pitch Black Promenade 8) Stadust 9) Sundown

• Format Detail: CD 4-panel Digipak
• Format: CD
• Genre: Jazz