Brown Brothers Recordings 5/17/08

Gold Sounds headlines the Beantown Jazz Festival 9/27/08.

The Co-Op is Wycliffe Gordon, Derrick Hodge, Jeremy Pelt, Kendrick Scott and young Warren Wolf.  Look for the new album on multiple formats late '08 - early '09.  All original compositions.  Recorded by Steve Mandel and mixed by Brian Deck.

"The making of the C0-OP" short film will debut here soon. 

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Hello Sportsfans:

Well well well, the Dr. is IN! Dr. Detroit, whom many of you know as our amiable Brown Brothers agitator, has done it again.  He scheduled another live party centered around the inimitable Gold Sounds quartet.  For those who like to plan their fall ahead, mark SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 on your calendars.  On that day, James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson and Reginald Veal will have a coveted spot at the Beantown Jazz Festival in South Boston, Massachussetts, U.S.A.  How you like THEM apples. 

Check out the festival's illustrious history at http://www.beantownjazz.com/ and, in a "Where's Waldo"-type event, anyone who spots Dr. Detroit at the festival (clue, he will be wearing a Brown Brothers hat) and says "The Doctor doesn't play" gets a free Gold Sounds cd.  For the less sleuthing types, click on the "buy now" link to your leftand pay for it baby.

Is there anybody alive out there?  Well, for all you non-believers and faith-healers we are still an ongoing concern, all inertia be damned.  We are about to take another stab at changing some folks' lives through the magic of a full-length audio album, or if you must, even a la carte consumption through single track downloads.

Here is the story:  We made a classic album a couple of years ago.  We called it Gold Sounds and we think, three years on, it is destined to entertain discerning listeners for years to come.  We sent that album out into the marketplace and waited for the euros and pounds to start rolling in *(we knew the dollar was in trouble even back in '05).  We are still waiting.

Despite that and because of arrogance and stupidity, we are trying again.  After three years scouring the globe via assiduous attention to musical excellence, we hired five of the best musicians in the business to convene December 9-12, 2007 in New York City to record for all our illustrious Brothers Brown.  Without further adieu, here are the chosen five . . .

Jeremy Pelt, trumpet, flugelhorn and producer.  Jeremy is a 30-something LA native who hangs his hat in New York when not traveling.  He culminated a several-year run to a Downbeat magazine young-trumpeter of the now cover earlier this year (07 if the calendar has changed from this writing).  But, JP is no be-bop time capsule.  Despite numerous comparisons to Freddy Hubbard, Lee Morgan and King Miles Davis, Jeremy is an avid Radiohead fan and has moved the game forward by disparate releases in disparate formats.  Check filter-par-excellence allmusic.com for the details, but in shorthand for the initiates, Jeremy is the James Carter of the gang . . .

The parts of Reginald Veal and Ali Jackson will be played this time by Derrick Hodge and Kendrick Scott.  Hodge on the bass is good enough to be Terence Blanchard's bass-man for touring and playing on the latter's Grammy nominated album about Katrina.  Hodge also played with thinking-man's rapper Common and many other hip-hop luminaries and the man can flat out bring the bottom. Scott on the drums is a Houston native who teamed with Hodge in Blanchard's band and also has his own entreprenurial and wide-ranging musical cosmos which you can check out at kendrickscott.com.

Kicking the session up a notch or ten is Pine Cone himself, Wycliffe Gordon.  Gordon can simply do it all on trombone and maybe even a soulful vocal or two.  He has been in and around Lincoln Center Jazz for over a decade and he oozes class, musical and otherwise.

Finally, we are proud to bring Warren Wolf, Jr., multi-instrumentalist with a heavy emphasis on the vibes, in to complete the good times.  Wolf can be seen in a mesmerizing solo on youtube with which we encourage you to familiarize yourself.  He has recorded with Pelt previously on the gripping Angular track off Pelt's Maxjazz release Identity.

Please return to this space often and early to keep abreast of the project and maybe hear some musical teasers from the upcoming album.  Expect the hyperbole to really kick into high gear as we go go go.  As with Gold Sounds, you can expect an album that you can buy with the confidence that you will enjoy repeated playings for years or we ain't the Brown Brothers.  Now, click on the links to refresh yourselves with our history, secure in the knowledge that the present and future will smoke your eyelids and punch your eardrums.  In a good way.