Post Description

James Gelfand:
Over the past 15 years, I have focused my musical career on scoring soundtracks for movies and television; 
and while it has been creative and productive, I have missed the pleasure and inspiration of performing and 
recording improvised music. Then two years ago, out of the blue (not blues…), I got a call from an old high 
school friend, Mervon Mehta, the musical director of the prestigious Koerner Hall in Toronto, asking me to 
perform in his 2017 Jazz Trio series, opening for the Christian McBride Trio. Although hesitant at first, being 
very busy working on films, I started to embrace the idea of getting back into performing, putting a trio 
together, and creating a repertoire for the concert.

The first order of business was finding a bass player and drummer to accompany me. I immediately thought 
of Morgan Moore and Jim Doxas. What drew me to these two outstanding musicians was their openness to 
all styles of music and their technical and improvisational skills. Fortunately, they were both available!

Then there was the repertoire. I have always been drawn to the idea of composing and arranging music for 
albums with an overall concept in mind. On my album Time Zones, I composed all the tunes with different 
odd-meter time signatures coupled with very diatonic melodies. Children's Standards featured arrangements 
of well-known children themes. My solo album, Convergence, joined classical and jazz styles juxtaposed with 
classical and jazz composition.

For this new project, I incorporated different types of specific compositional devices to give each tune and 
arrangement a conceptual vision.


Personnel:
James Gelfand - piano;
Morgan Moore - bass;
Jim Doxas - drums.

foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-09-11 22:59:22
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Analyzed: James Gelfand Trio / Ground Midnight
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR11      -0.76 dB   -14.53 dB      6:22 01-Caravan
DR12      -0.55 dB   -15.00 dB      5:18 02-Septaloupe Bay
DR12      -1.22 dB   -15.74 dB      6:05 03-Two Dozen Matters
DR13      -1.85 dB   -18.76 dB      7:44 04-Stone Circles
DR11      -1.07 dB   -15.68 dB      7:42 05-TransJiguration
DR11      -2.24 dB   -16.69 dB      6:56 06-Horizons
DR12      -1.41 dB   -16.75 dB      6:14 07-Ground Midnight
DR13      -0.97 dB   -18.26 dB      5:00 08-Wanderly
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Number of tracks:  8
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate:        96000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2339 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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