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O Sole Mio! Music From The Motherland

by Cory Weeds

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O Sole Mio 07:14
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Mr. Lucky 05:12
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Estate 07:22
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Chick's Tune 06:11
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Moody Blues 06:01
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Cory Weeds delivers a blistering set of Italian themed tunes backed up by one of the pre-eminent organs bands in jazz today!

The results speak for themselves: swinging bop lines executed by all, crackling rhythm section accompaniment and interaction, and an ensemble sound that underscores the values of swing, groove and participatory interaction over a carefully selected set of compositions--thanks to the support of Giulio Recchioni and the Italian Cultural Centre--that celebrate through reinvention and interpretation some great Italian music ("O Sole Mio," "Toma A Surriento"), as well as compositions taken from the rich history of contribution that Italian-Americans have brought to jazz and the American popular song (Marmarosa, Corea, Martino, Mancini). Although to some, perhaps, the ideas presented here may appear on the surface to be disparate and tangentially connected: a jazz version of "O Sole Mio," a fifth instrumentalist added to a longstanding quartet or even the Hammond B3 organ in jazz (a relatively late addition to the music's instrumentarium with an unusual historical pedigree of roller rinks and makeshift churches), jazz has long been about thwarting normative conventions and looking for points of intersection that connect and unite players and sounds that span nationalities, race, language, gender and musical history.

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released January 15, 2021

Cory Weeds – alto saxophone
Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone
Mike LeDonne – Hammond B3 organ
Peter Bernstein – guitar
Joe Farnsworth - drums

Produced by Cory Weeds & Mike LeDonne
Recorded at Armoury Studios on October 6, 2019
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Chris Gestrin
Cover photo by Jesse Cahill
Inside photos by Vincent Lim
Design and layout by John Sellards

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Cory Weeds Burnaby, British Columbia

A saxophonist with an expressive sound rooted in Jazz tradition, a label owner tirelessly documenting unsung Jazz heroes, one of Canada’s most important Jazz impresarios, the hardest-working man in Jazz business-Cory Weeds is all of these things and much more. He may be best known as the founder of Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver, which he successfully ran for more than 14 years. ... more

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