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Record LabelCdb, CD Baby

UPC0628740791424

eBay Product ID (ePID)10046074422

Product Key Features

Release Year2006

FormatCD

GenreJazz

ArtistKeefe Marzell

Release TitleDrawn Windows

Dimensions

Item Weight0.24 lb

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks11

Number of Discs1

TracksMore Is Pleasure, Now ; Forever, Love Thinking of U, Vintage, Never Learn to Swim, Drawn Windows, New Jazz Swing, Through the Night, Enter Slowly, Goodbye Terome, Vintage (My Prospective)

NotesKEEFE MARZELL AND VINTAGE Keefe Marzell and Vintage insist that the music they create have two crucial elements -- a spiritual connection and a high emotional content. On their debut album, DRAWN WINDOWS, they play smooth jazz like it is seldom heard by fusing it with an eclectic mix of various styles including funk, R&B, hip-hop, fusion and gospel. "The group is called Vintage," explains Marzell, "because underneath the smooth jazz melodies, all of our music has an old-school funk feel. Everything we do is groove-based - not just rhythmic, but groovin'. In addition to that, most of the musicians on the album have played with contemporary Christian acts and gospel artists as well as in church, so there is a lot of spirituality in this music. But no matter what our backgrounds are, we all know that to really connect with listeners we have to play with emotion. That's what makes all the difference." For more information on Keefe Marzell and Vintage, go to www.keefemarzell.com Their CD, DRAWN WINDOWS, is distributed by RED/SONY and can be purchased at record stores nationwide or online at various sales sites such as amazon.com and cdbaby.com. DRAWN WINDOWS is Marzell's vision. He played drums and keyboards, produced, arranged and engineered the album along with co-writing most of the material. Marzell's background includes playing drums on tours with such top smooth jazz artists as Bob James, Kirk Whalum and Marion Meadows; R&B act New Birth; and Christian groups such as Edwin Hawkins, Commissioned, Donald Vale, and The Clark Sisters. On DRAWN WINDOWS, Marzell surrounded himself with top musicians. The other half of the Vintage rhythm section is bassist Terome "T-Bone" Hannon (Jewel, The Judds, Amy Grant, The Boys Choir of Harlem), who played with Marzell regularly for the past two decades (including their own wild'n'funky R&B group, Raw), but who died of a brain aneurysm the day after they finished recording DRAWN WINDOWS. The album ends with a tribute to him, "Goodbye Terome," a studio jam featuring his bass playing. The other core member of Vintage is keyboardist Marcus Abernathy (The Winans, Tim Bowman, Virtue). In 1996, when Marzell was hired as the musical director to put together a touring band for the group Commissioned, he brought in Hannon and Abernathy. During that two-year tour, the three musicians began writing their own music and developing the sound that became Vintage. Also on DRAWN WINDOWS are some of Detroit's finest smooth jazz musicians. Guitarist Tim Bowman (The Winans, Ben Tankard) also played with Commissioned and is a successful recording artist in his own right, as are saxophonists Randy Scott (Grover Washington Jr., Ronnie Laws, Hiroshima) and Norma Jean Bell (Parliament, Narada Michael Walden, Frank Zappa). Also making appearances on the recording are keyboardist Kevin Crosby (New Birth, Alicia Myers, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Dramatics), bassist Jimmy Ali (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, Earl Klugh) and bassist Prince Edward Tate (he and Marzell grew up together and have performed in their church for many years). Perhaps the best example of the band's sound is the tune appropriately titled "Vintage." "We were definitely going with an old-school rhythm feel that mixes P-Funk with a little reggae and then in the middle lays some Chick Corea-type soloing over the top," explains Marzell. The CD also contains an extended second version of the tune subtitled "My Prospective" that features a bass solo. "This tune was inspired by a friend of mine, Wayman Tisdale, the former NBA star and now a major jazz artist, who often critiqued my music and encouraged me." DRAWN WINDOWS begins with "More Is Pleasure," a take-off on co-writer Morris Pleasure's name. Pleasure (Janet Jackson, Earth Wind & Fire, Boney James, Michael McDonald) handed Marzell the basic structure of the tune which Keefe crafted into a solid smooth jazz production. Randy Scott penned "Now & Forever" and Keefe brought in his cous