Audio Collection
Blues For Sparky
Aaron Alexander Sextet
Straight-Ahead and Quirky Jazz tunes, grooving, original music, creative sextet arrangements, great soloists. Memorable melodies. Quirky. Weird. Yeah.
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Wild West | 2:51 | Play |
| 2 |
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Answering Machine | 3:14 | Play |
| 3 |
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Twinkle Eyes | 4:38 | Play |
| 4 |
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Jerry's Birthday | 3:25 | Play |
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Alexander & Greenberg tribute | 2:07 | Play |
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Maago & Cortes tribute | 1:41 | Play |
| 7 |
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Blues for Sparky | 5:56 | Play |
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Ernestine | 3:59 | Play |
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Nancy's Voice | 5:10 | Play |
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Third and Pike | 4:18 | Play |
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Forschmiedt & Gilbert tribute | 1:31 | Play |
| 12 |
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Manza & Jaim tribute | 1:55 | Play |
| 13 |
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Mellow For My Lou Bro | 5:57 | Play |
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Tropic of Cancer | 4:55 | Play |
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Some Other Time | 6:08 | Play |
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The D Tune | 3:11 | Play |
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Description
Drummer and Composer Aaron Alexander is considered by many to be among the world's foremost klezmer and jazz drummers.
This CD was recorded in 2002 in one of the finest studios in Brooklyn, Systems 2, and features entirely original jazz music by Alexander, save for one arrangement of the jazz standard Some Other Time.
The band on this CD features some of the finest jazz musicians in the New York/New Jersey metro area:
The band is:
Greg Wall on Saxophones,
Andy Gravish on Trumpet,
Ben Williams on Trombone,
Mitch Schechter on Piano,
Brian Glassman on Bass,
Aaron Alexander on Drums.
Alexander's newest CD "Midrash Mish Mosh" is being acclaimed by critics, musicians and listeners alike. Over the past decade and a half his performances and recordings with Hasidic New Wave, Babkas, The Klezmatics, Greg Wall's Later Prophets, Alicia Svigals, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Tronzo Trio, Jay Clayton, Margot Leverett, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Boban Markovich Orchestra and Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars have brought his music to the attention of listeners all over the world.
Alexander has appeared on Prairie Home Companion with the Klezmatics, BET Live with Hasidic New Wave, Sandy Bradley's Potluck with the Mazeltones, performed at LaMama Etc. for several live theater shows, composed music for Dance and conceived and produced Hasidic New Wave's acclaimed collaboration with Senegalese Sabar ensemble Yakar Rhythms. He has received composition grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and Meet The Composer Foundation. His collective band Timebone, in 1990 won an Earshot Jazz award for "Best Acoustic Jazz Group."
Aaron has appeared at many of the top Jazz and World Music Festivals and Venues, including Texaco NY Jazz Fest, North Sea Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall in London, Berlin Jazz Festival, Ring Ring Festival (Belgrade), Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, Pori Jazz Festival (Finland), New Morning in Paris, Lincoln Center, Pepsi Sziget Festival (Budapest), San Francisco Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, Moods in Zurich, Krakow Festival of Jewish Culture, Porgy and Bess in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and others in Buenos Aires, Latvia, Bratislava (Pressburg), Rome, Milan, Venice and Spokane.
Alexander moved to New York City from Seattle in 1993.
Alexander has worked with James Knapp's Composers and Improvisers Orchestra, Natsuki Tamura, Myth Science, Tronzo Trio, Julian Priester, J. Granelli, Mose Allison, Peter Epstein, Michael Bisio, Wayne Horvitz, Steve Bernstein, Chris Speed, Jessica Williams, Charlie Byrd & many others. He is committed to the discipline of improvisation as well as composition.
Alexander released an all original jazz CD in 2003
(Aaron Alexander Sextet "Blues for Sparky")
Midrash Mish Mosh was released in 2004 on the Tzadik label, run by downtown icon John Zorn.
Alexander has appeared on over 40 CDs and his compositions have appeared on many of them, including CDs by Babkas (3 CDs on Songlines), Hasidic New Wave(4 CDs on Knitting Factory & Nottwo), Jay Clayton/Jim Knapp Collective(Cds on ITM Pacific and Sunnyside), the Kleztraphobix and his own CDs.
Recorded at Systems 2, in Brooklyn,
Production assistance from J. Granelli & Frank London.
Cover photo by Merceditas Manago-Alexander.
Aaron Alexander's most recent project, Midrash Mish Mosh will play at Makor on May 19th in a world/jazz double bill with the Nation Beat Ensemble.
Makor is on 67th St. between Columbus & Amsterdam.
you can see links and more info about Alexander at his website:
www.aaronalexander.com