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Jonathan Mayer

Title: Out of Genre - with Kenny Wheeler

Label: First Hand Records

Cat No:FHR09
Format:CD

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• Debut album from the distinguished sitarist, spanning world, jazz and classical genres, and featuring jazz trumpet legend Kenny Wheeler.

• It includes five compositions by Mayer, one composed by Mayer & Wheeler, and three pieces by J.S. Bach, the first time any of his works have been transcribed for sitar. This recording, mastered at Abbey Road Studios, also features the newly invented pygmy sitar, recorded here for the first time.

• Personnel : JONATHAN MAYER - sitar, pygmy sitar, electric sitar, tanpura, guitar-zither, piano, Fender Rhode; KENNY WHEELER trumpet, flugelhorn; BERNARD WYSTRAETE flute, bass flute; MITEL PUHORIT tabla; ANDY BRATT drums.

• Jonathan Mayer is son of violinist & composer, John Mayer, who with Joe Harriott, co-founded the well-known Indo-Jazz Fusions group of the 1960s & 70s.

• Concert review quotes: “...exhilarating solos from Jonathan Mayer on sitar..." (The Times) - “...astonishingly virtuosic from Jonathan, on sitar...” (Classic CD).

Track Listing for Out of Genre - with Kenny Wheeler
1. BACH: Adagio from Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
2. MAYER: Rag Jiddhu
3. MAYER: String of Pearls
4. MAYER / WHEELER: Joning
5. BACH: Gavotte en rondea (from Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006.
6. WYSTRAETE: Abida
7. MAYER: Whole Again
8. BACH: Prelude No. 2 in C minor (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1, BWV 847.
9. MAYER: Capo-Lo
10. MAYER: When it Rains

Reviews

Jazz Rag - Greg Murphy

his soloing here, on both trumpet and the flugelhorn, is of his usual amazingly high standard.

Songlines - Maria Lord

All in all, this is an unusual and intriguing album that pushes at the limits of what we expect from the sitar.

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Out of Genre - with Kenny Wheeler