John Barron - Long Ashes

Released: 2003
Size: 102,7 MB
Time: 44:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Guitar Driven Jazz, Soul-Jazz, Organ Jazz
Art: Big Front

01. Hurry Up N' Wait [4:55]
02. Move It Along [5:53]
03. The Border [4:01]
04. The Rifler [6:25]
05. Long Ashes [3:16]
06. The Roust [5:25]
07. New Blues, Same Blues [7:36]
08. You And I [7:09]

Recommended if you like Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, John Scofield.

Long Ashes is the debut full length CD from Detroit guitarist John Barron. The disc is a culmination of two different trio sessions. One featuring the bluesy Mark Thibodeau on organ, and the other featuring in demand motown bassist Pat Prouty. Veteran Canadian drummer Kevin Venney anchors both trios. The result is 8 original compositions penned by Barron that cross into many territories of jazz while maintaining a strong sense of feel good - in the pocket grooves.
John's style of guitar playing has been described as a cross between jazz and blues. This is by no means accidental. Along with the influence of jazz guitar greats like Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, and Grant Green, John also cites blues legends such as Albert King, and Johnny "Guitar" Watson as personal favorites.
John is a graduate of Wayne State University and keeps busy as a guitarist/bassist performing and teaching in and around Detroit Michigan. He has toured internationally with soul singer Bettye Lavette and Motown legends The Contours. Recording credits include blues/jazz vocalist Odessa Harris (The Easy Life), award winning latin jazz group Tumbao Bravo(Montuno Salad, Amigos: From Our Hands), and wrote four of the songs on the new CD by blues legend Alberta Adams (I'm on the Move) for Eastlawn records. John currently serves on the music faculty at the University of Windsor.Outside of music, John enjoys spending time with his wife and children (to whom this music is dedicated).(~~Vincent Kenwood)

Long Ashes

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Patrick Prouty - Rustbelt

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:32
Size: 129.4 MB
Styles: Straight ahead jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[5:01] 1. Morganic
[5:05] 2. Rustbelt
[9:06] 3. L' Etranger De Poulet
[6:51] 4. Music Menu Minorism
[5:09] 5. Forty-Four
[5:45] 6. Michigan Central Station
[6:04] 7. Detroitational
[5:29] 8. You & I And The Autumn
[7:59] 9. For Tomorrow

Rustbelt is the sophomore effort from Detroit based composer/bassist Patrick Prouty. It showcases eight original Prouty compositions through the lens of his hometown, Detroit. He brought together his regular drummer, Bill Higgins along with legendary organist/pianist Bill Heid and recent double lung transplant recipient saxophonist Scott Petersen for this session. The music is hard swinging, sometimes brooding, yet very friendly much like the city that inspired it.

Rustbelt

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Patrick Prouty - Roll The Windows Down

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:36
Size: 88.4 MB
Styles: Soul, Funk
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:46] 1. Duck!
[5:04] 2. Ms. Lavette
[2:47] 3. New Jersey
[3:40] 4. One For Jamerson
[4:04] 5. Woodward
[3:41] 6. Summer Of '84
[3:44] 7. Roll The Windows Down
[2:51] 8. Between The Stax
[4:13] 9. 1978 Camaro
[3:41] 10. Tumbleweeds

Detroit bassist Patrick Prouty's, Roll The Windows Down is an homage to the music of Stax and Motown. It features 10 original funky/soul instrumentals in the style of Booker T. and The Funk Brothers.

Patrick Prouty is a veteran bassist/composer from Detroit. He began is musical pursuits with piano lessons at age 10 and when he got to high school he started singing an playing guitar in local rock bands. Early on music became his foremost passion! Switching to electric bass in his senior year of high school and without much formal musical training, he decided to pursue a jazz studies degree at Wayne State University in Detroit. After a less than spectacular audition, Professor Matt Michaels agreed to let him enter the jazz program but only after a summer of lessons with Wayne State’s bass instructor Dan Pliskow. Professor Pliskow encouraged Patrick to acquire an upright bass. He found one for sale in the paper, purchased it and three days later did his first gig on it!

In the fertile Detroit jazz and blues scene, Patrick began to make a name for himself as a solid, reliable sideman on both the electric and upright bass and started to make his living as a musician. He began sharing the stage and the recording studio with some of Detroit’s best jazz and blues artists like Marcus Belgrave, and Alberta Adams.

Al Hill, Kevin Grenier- Keyboards; George Bedard, Kris Kurzawa- Guitars; Bill Higgins, Kevin Venney- Drums; Patrick Prouty- Basses; Steve Wood- Saxophones.

Roll The Windows Down

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