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I'm happy to announce my latest CD, available March 20, 2012 on Origin Records!
Featuring...
- Dan Cray, Piano
- Noah Preminger, Tenor Sax
- Clark Sommers, Bass
- Mark Ferber, Drums
Every second is executed with taste and balance--a kind of jazz feng shui.
-Bob Doershuk, Downbeat Magazine
Included with your complete CD download are PDFs of the album art, liner notes, and cover image. These are not available if you download on iTunes--just sayin'!
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This CD is available for download through the store.
This CD can be purchased through the store.
Over Here Over Heard
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Recorded live at Pops for Champagne in Chicago!
It takes exactly one tune to know how much phosphorescent burn he and drummer Greg Wyser-Pratte can generate together. By the time their seemingly decorous and traditional version of "Old Black Magic" is finished, the bandstand is ablaze.
-Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
The album's real pleasures are the trio's nonchalant rhythmic elasticity and keen harmonic empathy, which allow the group to streamline its thoroughly mainstream sound with a contemporary sense of economy.
-Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
This CD is available for download through the store.
This CD can be purchased through the store.
This CD can be purchased an a Flash Drive through the store.
Save Us!
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The performance that permanently makes the case for Dan Cray is "If You Could See Me Now." This Tadd Dameron song needs no improvement, but Cray's painfully slow search through its possible connotations, returning to its ascending melodic affirmation over and over, never quite separating from it, understanding it anew, is a very good reason to buy this album.
-Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times
Like a poet or a painter who searches constantly for new ways to express himself without losing his core focus. . .
-Jim Santella, All About Jazz
This CD is available for download through the store.
This CD can be purchased through the store.
This CD can be purchased an a Flash Drive through the store.
No One
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A lot of intriguing ideas. . .most as interesting, if not more, than the celebrated Bad Plus.
-Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine
No One by Dan Cray is a recording full of interesting twists that delight the listener, and also some very high level musicianship and artistry. It is a recording that would be a delight to most any listener and certainly a welcome addition to any jazz aficionado's collection.
-Craig Hurst, Jazzreview.com
This CD is available for download through the store.
This CD can be purchased through the store.
This CD can be purchased an a Flash Drive through the store.
Who Cares
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This is where it all began! Own a piece of history! (Please, I have 500 in the basement!)
A lively, upbeat affair, infused with a youthful zest, first-rate musicianship and rhythmic joy.
-Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
The answer to the rhetorical and titular question "Who Cares?" should be, "Anyone who cares for modern jazz!'"
-Jazz Institute of Chicago
This CD is available for download through the store.
This CD can be purchased through the store.