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A modern jazz album incorporating jazz improvisation, pop and rock compositions, and classical sensibilities to create a captivating listening experience.

9 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo, JAZZ: Big Band



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âRyan Keberle is one of the truly great young musicians coming up and turning heads. He has much to say as both a player and writer. This beautiful project is both impressive and expressive, fresh, yet rooted. Here he's surrounded himself by a truly wonderful group of talented and like-minded individuals who all give up absolutely marvelous solos, and together create a great ensemble. I've already enlisted Ryan to play many gigs with my own group. This is an individual whose career I will take enormous pleasure in watching bloom.â

Maria Schneider


âHis technical proficiency is met with an equally developed sense of melody, rhythm, form, and wit.â

Jimmy Heath


Liner Notes (By David Adler):

"Ryan Keberle Double Quartet"

Ryan Keberle, 26, has covered a lot of ground since arriving in New York from Spokane, Washington in 1999. Having earned degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliardâs nascent Jazz Studies program, he has also been schooled on the bandstands of some of the most forward-looking large ensembles, including the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and Darcy James Argueâs Secret Society. It stands to reason that he would choose a âdouble quartetâ format for his debut as a leader. âI have a soft spot for brass in general,â says Keberle, who fronts a strong rhythm section and plays a fine trombone but doesnât stop there. We also hear a vibrant canvas of trumpet, French horn, second trombone and tuba, seamlessly integrated with the standard quartet, generating broad tone colors and lending the session a flavor of boundless surprise. âThe sonorities and overtones you can create with brass are really amazing, especially with musicians of this caliber,â Keberle marvels. âWith four people playing perfectly in tune, it almost sounds like thereâs twice that many.â

Much of todayâs expanded ensemble work involves strings: think Ted Nashâs Rhyme & Reason, Tom Harrellâs Paradise, Quinsin Nachoffâs Magic Numbers, Jeremy Peltâs Close to My Heart or Gil Goldsteinâs Under Rousseauâs Moon. Fine efforts all, but Keberle points in a different direction. And the span of his influences is impressive: from J.J. Johnsonâs little-known and hard-to-find âEuro Suiteâ â âsome of the most gorgeous writing youâve ever heard,â Keberle remarks â to Brad Mehldauâs Largo, which, for all its experimental production values, is in many respects an album of chamber jazz. Wayne Shorterâs Alegría is another notable precedent. âIâm interested in making really warm music,â notes Keberle, âmusic that connects to all listeners.â To that end, heâs sought inspiration not only in the obscure corners of the Third Stream, but also in the realm of pop songwriting. Lennon and McCartney are overt influences, as the inclusion of âBlackbirdâ and âNorwegian Woodâ makes clear. But Keberle also invokes Stingâs Ten Summonerâs Tales: âAlmost every track is in odd meters, but when I heard it around age 14, I didnât know that. The songs are so organic that they donât feel odd at all.â Youâll hear that ideal reflected in the intriguing polyrhythm â 3/4 against 7/4 â at the start of âOrganic Rodeo.â

The son of musician parents, Keberle took up classical piano and violin at age five. His early exposure to Ravel and Brahms, to late Romantic and early 20th-century harmony, was formative. âWhen I started on trombone it was the great big bands,â he adds. âEllington and Basie were extremely important to me.â How fitting, then, to end up allied with a figure like Maria Schneider, whose ensemble âtakes advantage of all these warm textures and has a certain classical sensibilityâ but employs some of the worldâs top improvisers. âMariaâs been a huge influence in terms of learning how to develop a piece without repeating material, keeping the listener involved,â says Keberle.

It also helps to have a fine supporting cast, and Keberle has assembled just that. Drummer Brad Wentworth was Keberleâs first roommate in New York. âHe has an almost telepathic sense â he anticipates my every move as a soloist,â Keberle says. Pianist Adam Birnbaum and bassist Matt Brewer were Keberleâs schoolmates at Juilliard. Birnbaum comes from a rigorous classical background but can play âanything in any style.â Brewer is emerging as a major force on his instrument, gigging with such artists as Greg Osby, Jeff âTainâ Watts and Gonzalo Rubalcaba and also leading his own group. The brass quartet includes Marshall Gilkes, a formidable trombonist and one of Keberleâs closest friends, who debuted in 2004 with the remarkable Edenderry; Michael Rodriguez, an exceptional soloist who has gained recognition in the small and large groups of Charlie Haden; Chris Komer, a sought-after freelance musician and skilled improviser on French horn (he takes the first solo on âNorwegian Woodâ); and Jose Davila, noted for his tuba playing in Andrew Hillâs large ensemble and Henry Threadgillâs ZOOID.

If thereâs one track that displays the combined power of these eight instruments, it is âChildren of the Night,â a Wayne Shorter classic from the Jazz Messengers album Mosaic, featuring Keberleâs trombone forebear Curtis Fuller. âShorter is at the top of my list of favorite songwriters in jazz,â notes Keberle. Another is Brad Mehldau, whose â29 Palms,â a solo piano cut from the Places album, appears here as a blossoming, finely woven brass fantasy. The opening is in fact a note-for-note transcription of Mehldauâs piano intro. âWhen I wrote it out I noticed it was four-part harmony in its entirety, which blew my mind because itâs improvised,â Keberle recalls. âI thought it would be natural to adapt it for the brass.â (Keberle is a professional transcriber for Jazz at Lincoln Center.)

The five Keberle originals survey a range of light and dark moods, opaque and translucent harmonies. Keberleâs agile, authoritative horn cuts through like a beacon. The interplay of the two quartets is beautifully realized, and the brass treatments themselves are rich in variety â from dense four-part interludes to soaring soli unison writing, from bold foreground to subtle background. âWedding Musicâ was written at the request of pianist Kris Davis and drummer Jeff Davis and performed at their nuptials by a brass trio. Keberle then expanded it for the present group. âSomething Speaking,â by contrast, he scaled down from a big band arrangement for the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble. âWhat Goes Aroundâ grew out of a writing exercise assigned to Keberle by master trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. (It used to have lyrics.) The ballad âWhen Iâm Awayâ has an earlier provenance â Keberle wrote it at age 19. Taken together, this music reveals a sophistication and creative restlessness that is anything but common. Conversant with the tradition but current in spirit and unique in format, it gives us reason to be optimistic for Keberleâs, and jazzâs, future.


Bio: Ryan Keberle

Since his arrival in New York City just seven years ago, jazz trombonist and composer Ryan Keberle has become a first call musician, playing in many different styles including all genres of jazz, avant-garde, Latin, classical, and rock. When not performing in New York Cityâs major venues, including Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Centerâs Allen Room, Birdland, and the Bowery Ballroom, he is often touring the country and the world, having performed in Scandinavia, Italy, Ireland, Russia, China, Argentina, Australia, and others. Mr. Keberle graduated in 2001 from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with critically acclaimed trombonist Steve Turre and composers Mike Abene and the late Manny Album. Upon graduation he received the William H. Borden award for musical excellence in jazz, given to one member of each graduating class. He went on to study with Wycliffe Gordon and David Berger as a part of the Juilliard Schoolâs groundbreaking Institute for Jazz Studies. In May of 2003, he became a member of Jazz at Juilliardâs first graduating class. Recently, Mr. Keberle performed on NBC with the âSaturday Night Liveâ band, was selected as one of ten finalists for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trombone Competition, and completed tours with Wynton Marsalisâ Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. He has also performed with Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Charles McPherson, the late Percy Heath, Teo Macero, Joe Lovano, and Eric Reed, among others. When not performing on stage, Ryan can be found in the classroom at City Universityâs Hunter College where he began his tenure as a visiting professor in 2004.


Bio: The Ryan Keberle Double Quartet

In forming the Ryan Keberle Double Quartet Ryan has combined his passions for jazz improvisation, pop and rock compositions, and classical sensibilities to create an exciting and enjoyable listening experience.
The arrangements, done by Mr. Keberle, focus on his own original material, and that of other great song writers such as Lennon and McCartney, Wayne Shorter, and Brad Mehldau. The ensemble, which consists of a jazz quartet (piano, bass, drums, and trombone) and a brass quartet (trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba), includes some of the most talented young jazz musicians in the world. Members of the band currently play with Charlie Haden, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Barbara Streisand, the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Carla Bley, Greg Osby, Jeff âTainâ Watts, the New Jersey Symphony, Henry Threadgill, Jimmy Bosch, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra and various Broadway Musicals.

Ryan Keberle: Trombone
Adam Birnbaum: Piano
Matt Brewer: Bass
Brad Wentworth: Drums

Michael Rodriguez: Trumpet
Chris Komer: French Horn
Marshall Gilkes: Trombone
Jose Davila: Tuba

George Petit: Engineer
Alex Venguer: Assistant Engineer

Recorded at Right Track Studios on April 15 and 16, 2006
Mixed at Right Track Studios on April 20 and 21, 2006
Mastered at The Lodge by Emily Lazar
Photography by Jacob Blickenstaff
Design by Madeline Sturm
Liner Notes by David Adler


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