MP3 Mascot´s Distance - Chasing Pixie Dust On a Cheese-a-cycle

Mascotâs Distance is an Alternative-Americana â Soft Pop quartet with R&B & Jazz stylings, who have modeled themselves after such studio bands as Toto, Steely & and Harry Neilson- though have also been compared to The Band, Amos Lee, Randy Newman...

13 MP3 Songs in this album (54:52) !
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Mascotâs Distance is an Alternative-Americana â Soft Pop quartet with R&B and Jazz stylings, who have modeled themselves after such studio bandâs as Toto, Steely Dan and Harry Neilson- though have also been compared in sound to The Band, Amos Lee, Randy Newman, Joe Jackson, Leon Russel, Wilco and Phish. Their music is Piano based with a vocal-centric aesthetic, mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation and heavy use of vocal harmonies.

Band creator, lead singer and pianist, Jordon Rothstein is a singer-songwriter and producer from New York City. He has worked with some of today's better known recording acts including John Legend, Ian Gillan (of Deep Purple), Russell Simins (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion), Dan The Automator(The Gorillaz), Taye Diggs (from the musical Rent), Kim Sozzi and Pete Yorn, as well as some of New York's promising up and coming artists such as Kristin Hoffmann, Erene Mastrangeli, Bill Mcgarvey and Cassandra Reed. A few years back Jordon won best film score for the film Union, in the NYU Film Festival and was music supervisor for an independent film called Falling Sky, starring Karen Allen and Brittany Murphy. Over the past decade he was selected to participate in three ASCAP Songwriters workshops. Jordon has had success writing music and jingles for Carnation Instant Breakfast, Volvo and Folgers Coffee, MTV and Bed Bath and Beyond. He earned a BA in music from Syracuse University and a Masters Degree in music education from Columbia University.

The quartet's drummer, Yutaka Uchida (www.myspace.com/yutakauchida), is also a jazz composer in his own right. Yutaka is from Tokyo Japan and attended Bostons Berklee College of Music. In college, Yutaka won the annual Louie Bellson Award (sponsored by Avedis Zildjian Co.) in recognition of his outstanding performance. In 2005, he received the Performing Arts Award from The Council of the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island. In addition to his performances with Mascots Distance, Yutaka can be heard every Sunday evening at the jazz club Cleopatras Needle.

Guitarist Laurent Medelgi(www.myspace.com/guitarpillbox) was born and raised in Paris and moved to NYC in 1993. Since then he has studied with Mike Stern and Wayne Krantz and released his debut album in 2002, âCircles, Live@55 Barâ on the British label String Jazz, and released his second Album in 2006, âDiversesâ on Evander Music. Laurent made his broadway debut with the hit show Rent where he acted as lead guitar. Since then he has worked in the pit on the shows The Wedding Singer, Hair Spray, Jersey Boyz, Altar Boys and many others. When not playing with Mascotâs Distance or performing on Broadway, Laurent acts as music director and lead guitarist for many Jazz, pop, gospel and rock groups around the city. Groups including Marcques, Andrew Suvalsky, Sandra Crede Valeire Ahneman, Ari Gold and Apria Recording Artist B. Hadala.

The bands new bassist Danny Zanker (www.myspace.com/dannyzanker) spent his youth in England, Israel and Texas. The resulting cultural confusion, coupled with a formal education in jazz, laid the foundation for his musicianship. Moving to New York in May of 1995 helped him consolidate all his influences into an innovative and exciting playing style which features elements of jazz, blues, Middle Eastern, heavy metal, funk and avant garde. Danny is also an accomplished and prolific composer, with his compositions representing a natural extension of his concepts on the bass: complex yet danceable rhythms, lyricism and lots of emotional intensity. He currently can be heard leading his quartet, âAnti-Elevator Missionâ, at Smalls and Tagine. His playing is also prominently featured in Travis Sullivanâs Bjorkestra, the George Dulin Disband, the Yutaka Uchida Group, Souren Baronianâs Taksim, and Shusmo at venues which include the Knitting Factory, Makor, Joeâs Pub, Cornelia St. Cafe, and the BAM Cafe.