Hi Friends!
My new solo album entitled ‘Petting Sounds‘ is now available as a free download! The album is an improvised symphony for solo piano that I recorded in one continuous session. The album was recorded in Ojai California last year at the (now defunct) Institute for Universal Healing Arts with the same UA mixing board that was used for the Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds!’ Produced by Teddy Jack Russell & Brian Haas. Executive produced by Pride & Scott Hutchison. Just enter your email below and check your inbox to download the album! Enjoy!
-B
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 8:00 am. Add a comment
Hi everyone! Here is another recording from my 2005 tour in support of the album ‘The Truth About Hollywood’. This recording is from October 17th,2005 at the fabled Grog Shop in Cleveland,OH. The first half of this tour was played as a quartet, with this being the third of four nights with that lineup. This show contains some mind shattering improvisations as well as great versions of some of the covers played on that tour and album. Stream the show below. One listen will have you needing the CD/FLAC bundled version that is coming very soon!
That night I played various keys and effects and was joined by:
Jason Fraticelli: upright bass,effects
Jason Smart: drums
Mark Southerland: sax,horns,effects
Posted 10 months ago at 11:47 am. Add a comment
Hi Friends! I wanted to share a night of weirdness from Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge,MA on October 23rd, 2005 that was part of the tour supporting my 2005 solo release ‘The Truth About Hollywood’.
That night I played various keys and effects and was joined by:
Marco Benevento: keys,toys,effects
Jason Fraticelli: upright bass,effects
Marc Friedman: electric bass,effects
Joe Russo: drums
Mark Southerland: sax,horns,effects
Posted 10 months ago at 11:38 am. Add a comment
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“When Jacob Fred stops evolving‚ that’s when I’ll stop doing it‚” pianist and composer Brian Haas of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey says with as much conviction‚ intensity and humanness as the music he plays. It seems like this band wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t continuous motion and evolution. As surprising and sad it was to hear that bassist and founding member Reed Mathis was leaving the band earlier this year‚ in retrospect‚ it all makes sense. This band lives and breathes vibrant growth. And if it ain’t happening‚ then it ain’t happening.
Reed’s parting shot comes with Winterwood‚ an album that JFJO is giving away as a free download‚ and it brilliantly displays the new sonic experimentations of the band. The atmosphere is modern‚ hip and forward-thinking‚ but still holds the tried and true tradition of jazz. And in that sense‚ it might be where the band’s sound has advanced the most–understanding each other’s space and knowing how to let a killer melody breathe. Listen to the way the band moves and how Haas’ fingers work magic on the Grateful Dead’s “Crazy Fingers” to see what I’m talking about.
With Chris Comb on lap steel and Matt Hayes on upright bass joining Haas and drummer Josh Raymer‚ Jacob Fred is launching full speed ahead into the next chapter. There’s urgency in their music‚ there’s excitement in Haas’s voice‚ and there’s magic happening onstage. Things are moving quickly‚ too. Since my conversation with Haas‚ the band finished their first leg of a successful run of shows‚ offered up the tools to do your own remix of their song “Tetherball Triumph” [see STS9 doing it live during a P.A. set]‚ had guitarist Bill Frisell sit in for some tasty improvisation during their show in Seattle‚ and now Haas is giving away a new album, Petting Sounds‚ an improvised symphony for solo piano that was recorded in one continuous session‚ away as a free download.
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Posted 1 year ago at 9:25 am. Add a comment