The compact disc comes in a very nice black & white 4-panel digipak with a 12-page booklet displaying lots of great pictures from the actual recording session. Liner notes authored by the associate editor of dig! magazine, Charlene Diehl and graphic design by John Funk.
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada
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“Blues à la Burgess” is dedicated to my father Burgess Gardner, an incredible jazz trumpeter and my biggest influence. Through him I discovered Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Booker Little, and on up the line. My father is one of the bluesiest musicians I’ve ever heard—he’s able to find the blues in any and every tune he plays. Where another soloist would be trying hard to outline complicated chord changes, my father does that with elegance, but also superimposes the blues. Following his lead, I know that playing jazz means finding the blues in every piece you play. Compositionally, I based this tune on a phrase in one of my father’s solos that knocked me back when I first heard it, and I immediately incorporated it into my own lexicon. The tune itself is a straight-up blues, and I have pushed hard to come close to my father’s uncanny ability to capture the blues both compositionally and as an arranger. Using his improv idea definitely gave me the burst of nitrous oxide that enhances the blues aesthetic.