Septet John Carroll Kirby

• 1Rainmaker07:43
• 2P64 By My Side04:12
• 3Sensing Not Seeing05:33
• 4Swallow Tail03:48
• 5Weep04:49
• 6Jubilee Horns07:01
• 7The Quest of Chico Hamilton04:28
• 8Nucleo09:02
• Total Runtime46:36

Info for Septet

Amid the swirling sounds and scenes intersected by Los Angeles’ sprawling freeways, John Carroll Kirby is somewhere at the centre of it all, shirt open, hair slicked back. He circles the city’s buzzing jazz movement with his soul-dappled instrumentals and is a keysman, composer and producer who’s been enlisted by some of the most exciting names in contemporary pop: Frank Ocean, Mark Ronson, Harry Styles, Blood Orange, and Solange Knowles, whose incendiary past two albums, A Seat at the Table and When I Get Home, were shaped in part by Kirby.

He sees himself as more of a Ry Cooder character, the guitarist who co-directed the Cuban ensemble Buena Vista Social Club. “He’s a kind of genreless musician,” says Kirby. “He’s just centred around guitar and where that fits into different scenarios. I’m trying to do something similar, but with the keyboard.” – The Guardian

"Remarkably, the most effective moments in this vein occur when the leader assumes a background position, lending synthesizer shading and warped effects as mallets and flute link and skip at the fore of "P64 by My Side." For the most part, this is a jazz date -- an inviting and beatific one that frequently evokes classic '70s jazz-funk." (AMG)

John Carroll Kirby, keyboards
Tracy Wannomae, woodwind
Logan Hone, woodwind
Nick Mancini, vibraphone
John Paul Maramba, bass
Deantoni Parks, drums
David Leach, percussion

John Carroll Kirby
is a pianist, producer, and composer from Los Angeles, California. He studied jazz orchestration and composing with John Clayton at the University of Southern California. He has released five solo albums and is currently signed to Stones Throw Records in Los Angeles. He has collaborated with such artists as Solange, Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Miley Cyrus and Norah Jones.

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