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Evan Christopher - Clarinet Road Vol. 1: Road To New Orleans (1998)

2016-10-31T16:07:05Z

Evan Christopher - Clarinet Road Vol. 1: Road To New Orleans (1998)

  
1.Way Down Younder In New Orleans (4:24)
2.Basin Street Blues (5:12)
3.Carioca (4:46)
4.Monday Date (3:49)
5.Sweet Baby Doll (4:06)
6.St. James Infirmary (3:36)
7.If I Could Be With You (4:00)
8.You Made Me Love You (4:01)
9.After You've Gone (4:44)
10.Struttin' With Some BBQ (3:05)
11.Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? (3:30)
12.Knee Drops (3:49)

Evan Christopher - clarinet & vocal
Brian Shaw - trumpet
Chris Dawson - piano
Lars Edegran - guitar
John Rankin - guitar
John Eubanks - mandolin
Bill Huntington - bass
Hal Smith – drums

Christopher's most recent release, Clarinet Road Vol.1—The Road to New Orleans, is the first in a series of releases planned which are designed to explore the development of jazz clarinet repertoire. Vol. 1 features the clarinetist in two basic settings—a more tradition, piano based-accompaniment and a string ensemble featuring guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin, bass and violin. ---Editorial Reviews, amazon.com

Evan Christopher combines virtuosity, immaculate taste, and enthusiasm with a commitment to exploring the full range of possibilities in the New Orleans clarinet tradition. His highly personal brand of “contemporary, early jazz” strives to extend the legacies of early Creole clarinetists such as Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard and Omer Simeon. Critics remarking on Christopher’s dynamic expressiveness have coined his style “close-encounter music” and have called his respect for the music traditions of New Orleans, “a triumph, joining the present seamlessly to a glorious past.” --- clarinetroad.com

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Evan Christopher - Clarinet Road Vol. 2: Road To Romance (2000)

2016-11-03T14:22:44Z

Evan Christopher - Clarinet Road Vol. 2: Road To Romance (2000)

  
1.If I Should Lose You (5:28)
2.Sweet And Slow (7:51)
3.Love Walked In (5:23)
4.I'm Glad There Is You (5:20)
5.It Had To Be You (4:20)
6.One Night Of Love (4:25)
7.East Of The Sun (4:15)
8.The Peacocks (7:18)
9.I'm In The Mood For Love (6:21)
10.It's You Or No One (4:57)

Evan Christopher - clarinet
Jack Sheldon - trumet & vocal (2,6,9)
Tierney Sutton - vocal 4,7,9
Chris Dawson - piano
Derek Oles - bass
Larence Marable - drums (3)
Kendall Kay – drums

“Contemporary early jazz,” the phrase New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher uses to describe his music, sounds every bit like an oxymoron until you hear him at work. His buoyant, plush tone and slinky hothouse phrasing reveals stylistic links to some of the Crescent City’s first and best licorice stick masters—folks like Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, and Omar Simeon—but he’s no moldy fig revivalist. The California native first moved to New Orleans in 1994 and quickly made himself at home. He worked with Al Hirt, recorded with veteran members of Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and played with adventurous funkateers Galactic and various brass bands, but he really became an ambassador for the city’s music in the last decade, including extensive travel to Paris, France in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, where he began making deep connections to the jazz Manouche of Django Reinhardt. In his duet project with pianist Tom McDermott he flows seamlessly between Argentine tango, Brazilian choro, and Gypsy jazz, yet together they leave no doubt that all of their inspiration springs from the Big Easy.

Still, Christopher’s foundation is jazz of the 20s—including the early sounds of Chicago–whether he’s playing originals or revisiting the classic repertoire. On his fantastic quartet album The Remembering Song (Arbors) his melodic generosity ignores strict temporal boundaries, sprawling luxuriously over the warm guitar chords of Bucky Pizzarelli and the firm but unobtrusive bass tones of one-time John Zorn cohort Greg Cohen. Christopher’s primary vehicle of expression is his Clarinet Road project, which he presents today in his Chicago Jazz Festival debut; that band deftly transcends genre while staying anchored in the language of New Orleans clarinet. This incarnation of the long-running project includes guitarist and bassist Don Vappie, organist and pianist Joe Ashlar, and drummer Ocie Davis. --- jazzinchicago.org

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Evan Christopher - Clarinet Road Vol. 3: In Sidney's Footsteps (2006)

2016-11-11T16:03:05Z

Evan Christopher - Clarinet Road Vol. 3: In Sidney's Footsteps (2006)


1.I Got A Right To Sing The Blues (7:48)
2.Cinq Minutes! (Boogie) (5:00)
3.What Is This Thing Called Love (5:22)
4.The Broken Windmill (5:01)
5.Petite Fleur (5:27)
6.Old Fashioned Love (5:23)
7.En Ti Punch (4:52)
8.This Is That Tomorrow I Dreaded Yesterday (4:00)
9.Blues In The Air (7:13)
10.Manoir De Mes Reves (4:40)
11.When I Grow Too Old To Dream (6:59)

Evan Christopher - clarinet & vocal (6,11)
Julien Brunetaud - piano & vocal (11)
David Blenkhorn - guitar
Sebastien Giradot - bass
Guillaume Nouaux – drums

Evan Christopher continues his wildly successful "Clarinet Road" series wherein he takes the listener on a journey of interrelated, often themed, clarinet compositions - in this case, a journey through songs written or recorded by Sidney Bechet. Classic jazz songs are interpreted by a group of superlative musicians. --- Editorial Reviews, amazon.com

When Evan Christopher came to Paris with his clarinet and formed a band to perform New Orleans music, it was natural to think of Sidney Bechet. “In Sidney’s Footsteps” was recorded at Mesa studios in early 2006, during Christopher’s artist-in-residence at the invitation of the city of Paris just months after the city of New Orleans was decimated by catastrophic flooding. He used the opportunity to form his “Jazz Traditions Project,” a band of the best France-based musicians deeply commited to New Orleans music, to perform in Paris clubs and European festivals.

The “Jazz Traditions Project” also recorded a live CD, “Introduction: Live at the Meridien” at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Club, and was active until 2008, when Christopher returned to New Orleans and focused his energies on touring internationally with his popular Django à la Créole. STR Digital agreed to release the studio material as the third volume of Christopher’s “Clarinet Road” series but had to wait until 2012 because of other CD releases.

“In Sidney’s Footsteps,” marks the return of the “Jazz Traditions Project” performing music that celebrates and aims to extend the legacy of New Orleans traditions. With Sèbastien Girardot (bass), David Blenkhorn (guitar), and Guillaume Nouaux (drums) the CD features spirited versions of Bechet gems, some carefully chosen standards and even a Boogie-Woogie composed for the session to feature guest pianist Julien Brunetaud who fills out the group whenever possible. --- sebastiengirardot.com

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