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ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN! New release and catalog CD titles are now available. Sheet music for individual charts from the Fraize Book is being added weekly. CLICK HERE for a free lead sheet to "Young One" from my new CD Organic Matter.
I'm happy to announce that my Hammond organ project Organic Matter was released October 1st. This recording features some truly great playing by Greg Hatza, Mike Pavone, and Marty Morrison on eight of my original tunes. I'm very proud of this project and hope you'll check it out. I'm offering a free mp3 EP version which will be available through the end of November.
Now available for free exclusively on this site is Live In Lima, recorded last summer at the Jazz Zone club in Lima, Peru. I had the wonderful opportunity to play with the amazing musicians heard here, visit breathtaking (literally) Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and experience firsthand the incredible food (Ceviche! Lomo saltado! Cuy!) and people of a remarkable culture.
There are two additional releases I'm working on for the fall: Pierce, Putter, and Rumble, live recordings of free-improvised music featuring myself, pianist Jim Levy, and electronicist Steve Hilmy; and Post-Deconstruction Redux, unreleased live tracks with italian trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini from the same concert at DC's fabled One Step Down club that resulted in our Post-Deconstruction CD on Cadence Jazz Records.
I have also recently done some recording with the great Brazilian Jazz outfit Origem (the fabulous Alejandro and Leonardo Lucini) and will be in the studio soon with the wonderful vocalist Bonnie Harris along with the Larry Brown Quintet. Look for those releases sometime early next year.
Please visit my online store where you can purchase my new and back catalog CDs, in addition to recordings of various collaborations and projects I have been privileged to be a part of over the years. I will also be offering lead sheets and scores to over 100 of my tunes, available as collections in the Fraize Book volumes 1 & 2, as booklets by style or instrumentation, or individually. A few individual arrangements of tunes from my Organic Matter CD are now available, with new titles and collections being added regularly.
Thanks again for stopping by. Please check back often for updates on performances, recordings, teaching, and other activities. I hope you will feel free to contact me with any comments, suggestions, or just to say hello.
Cheers,
PF