How High The Bird, by Jim Gelcer / Paul Hoffert Trio

How High The Bird

by Jim Gelcer / Paul Hoffert Trio

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1.	All Weep For Blues 05:43	info	buy track
2.	How High The Bird 05:40	info	buy track
3.	Straight, No Chaser 04:27	info	buy track
4.	Everything Happens To Me 04:24	info	buy track
5.	Swinging Shepherd Blues 03:14	info	buy track
6.	Summertime 05:11	info	buy track
7.	Poli's Blues 04:29	info	buy track
8.	Chinese Dilemma 05:31	info	buy track
9.	You Make Me Feel So Young 04:41	info	buy track
10.	Well, You Needn't 03:52	info	buy track
11.	Anthropology 04:47	info	buy track

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Jim Gelcer, drums, and Paul (Poli) Hoffert, piano, are well known on the Toronto music scene. Gelcer, a yoga master, kirtan artist, and film composer, has led his own eponymous jazz bands, played drums with the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, and toured as a keyboardist with Lee Aaron. Hoffert had his first jazz album released when he was sixteen and is an award winning film composer. His band Lighthouse, one of the earliest fusion jazz ensembles, has many gold and platinum recordings and has performed at the Newport, Monterey, Boston, and Toronto jazz festivals as well as Carnegie Hall.

Gelcer and Hoffert worked together in China on a Harvard University music project and decided to start a jazz trio when they returned to North America in 2008.

Thematic threads:
* MELODY: piano bass & drums play melody in unison
* MASHUPS: several songs integrated into a single new songs
* MONK: Gelcer and Hoffert pay homage to Thelonious

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released January 1, 2011

Bass duties are shared by:
* Justin Gray: Straight, No Chaser; Chinese Dilemma; Anthropology; Well, You Needn't; Summertime; Swinging Shepherd Blues
* Lew Mele: Poli's Blues; How High The Bird; Everything Happens To Me; You Make Me Feel So Young
* Russ Boswell: All Weep For Blues

Produced by Jim Gelcer and Paul Hoffert
Engineered and mastered by James Rohr and Paul Hoffert
Recorded in 2010 at Hoffert Sound Studios, Toronto
Photos by Brenda Hoffert
Liner notes by Marty Hoffert -- Professor Emeritus, New York University

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