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Nick Halley
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Barnum Hill
Nick Halley & friends
Richard Baughman,
Matt Brewer, Paul Halley,
Adam Niewood,
Greg Ruggiero
This album features some of New
York's rising jazz stars on saxophones, guitars, and bass – the traditional jazz
framework then being expanded to include the wild sounds of percussion from
around the world and the great pipe organ.
Catalogue No.
NH 884501017558
Pelagos no longer
carries this CD.
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TRACKS
Total Album Time
1.
◙♫
On
Dreaming
Music: Nick Halley
2.
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Liz K
Music: Nick Halley
3.
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Olivier's Fool
Music: Nick Halley
4.
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Improv
Music: Nick Halley
and Paul Halley
5.
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Balance
Music: Greg Ruggiero
6.
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Fighting Windmills
Music: Matt
Brewer
7. ◙♫
Barnum Hill
(Evening)
Music: Nick Halley
8.
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Lights Out,
Drummer Boy
Music: Nick Halley
All compositions by
Paul Halley
© Back Alley Music (ASCAP)
are administered by
Pelagos Incorporated
Catalogue No.
NH 884501017558
Pelagos no longer
carries this CD.
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DESCRIPTION
In this CD, original music showcasing the talents of rising jazz stars
expands the traditional jazz framework to encompass the wild sounds of
Brazilian, Indian and North African percussion, 20th century classical
music, and the great pipe organ.
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REVIEWS
from All About Jazz
Jazz drummer and world
percussionist Nick Halley
recently released his debut recording, Barnum Hill.
Showcasing the talents of rising jazz stars Matt Brewer (bass) and Adam Niewood
(saxophones), the traditional jazz framework is expanded in this album
to encompass the wild sounds of percussion from around the world, 20th
century classical music, and the great pipe organ played by Paul Halley.
Nick Halley
spent a year in Brazil studying percussion with masters Marcio Bahia,
Oscar Bolao and Pedro Lima as well as performing with Viradoura, one of
Rio’s top samba schools. He returned to New York City to attend The New
School University’s jazz and contemporary music program, and entered
into long-lasting musical friendships with some of the great young
musicians in New York’s ever-evolving jazz scene.
Nick tours and
records with groups ranging in style from traditional Scottish and Irish
to gospel, jazz, Brazilian and popular music. He has performed with
artists as wide-ranging as Oscar Castro-Neves, Paul Halley, Maucha Adnet,
Chris Norman, Suzie LeBlanc, Theresa Thomason, Cafe, and
Jamey Haddad.
When not on tour, Nick is currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
apprenticed to his father as organist and choral conductor at the
University of King’s College, St. George’s Anglican Church, and the
Atlantic School of Theology. He directs workshops in percussion, music
theory, and Brazilian, North African, and South Indian rhythm. |
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CREDITS
Artists & Ensemble
Nick Halley
Richard Baughman
Matt Brewer
Paul Halley
Adam Niewood
Greg Ruggiero
Jon Suters
Nick Halley - frame drum, caxixi, pandeiro, shakers, riq, drums, Rhodes, piano,
accordian
Richard Baughman - jingle drum, caxixi,
shaker, Hadgini,
Matt Brewer - bass
Paul Halley - pipe organ
Adam Niewood - bass clarinet, saxophones, EWI
Greg Ruggiero - guitars
Jon Suters - acoustic guitars
Production
Produced by Nick Halley and Tom Bates
Tom Bates, Recording Engineer
Recorded at Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT,
United Church of Christ, Monterey, MA,
and St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Photography by Jamie Goldenberg
Art Production and Design by Penelope Daborn
©
2008 Nick Halley
All Rights Reserved
Made in USA
Notes,
Thanks, and Dedication
"This album is for Tom Bates, without whom
it would never have seen the light of day.
Thanks to the musicians, for their brilliance, my family, including the entrie
Barnum crowd, Donna and Wayne Burkhart, Brian Duffy, the Fischer-Kobes family,
Liz and Graham Allyn, Heather, Schuler, and Andrew Thomason, Jon Suters, Matt
Downing, Steve Snyder, Paastor Liz Goodman, Barbara Butler, The Reverend Ellen
Tillotson,
Jonathan Wyner, and Jamey Haddad.
Special thanks to Ness and
Shay, Sam and Jon, Liz, my mother, and my father, my greatest source of musical
inspiration."
- Nick Halley
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