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Perhaps best-known as a jazz record producer—with credits on countless internationally-distributed releases including more than a dozen Grammy-nominated projects— Nick Phillips’ heartfelt, lyrical jazz trumpet playing was put in the national spotlight in 2014 with release of his own debut album, Moment to Moment. Co-led with jazz pianist Cava Menzies, the album—which cracked the top 20 on the Billboard Jazz chart and was named one of the “Best Jazz Albums of 2014” by DownBeat magazine—drew enthusiastic comparisons to the work of jazz trumpet legends Miles Davis (“The Ballads Album Miles Davis Never Recorded” - East Bay Express) and Chet Baker (“... pristine, and moving, trumpet sound...Phillips’ nods to his predecessor’s fragility but also imparts a feeling of strength that comes through a sense of restraint.” - DownBeat).”
Currently, Phillips is co-leading a project with pianist/vocalist/songwriter/arranger Jenny Maybee. The collaboration began with a chance meeting at the 2014 West Coast Songwriter’s conference. They discovered a shared love for music arising from a place of stillness, inspired and framed by silence, and conveying frequencies of appreciation, awe, and love. Focusing their shared musical exploration on the experience of the sound and creating a space for relaxed improvisation, the duo developed original compositions and reimagined favorite standards, for the pure joy of making music together.
Opportunity knocked when esteemed audiophile recording engineer, Cookie Marenco, approached Phillips about recording his next project project at her legendary OTR Studios. Cookie’s Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.) proprietary recording technique, her depth of experience as a multiple GRAMMY-nominated engineer and producer, and recording, mixing, and mastering with the state-of-the- art, high-resolution audio technology (Quad-rate DSD, aka DSD256, which records at a sampling freqency that’s 256 times that of a CD), proved a perfect fit for the warm and intimate, yet detailed and spacious, sound that Maybee and Phillips wanted to capture.
While the recording medium is state of the art, the approach was decidely “old school”: Three musicians— Jenny Maybee (piano, vocals), Nick Phillips (trumpet), and Paul Eastburn (acoustic bass)—together in a room for an afternoon. No headphones, no isolation between musicians, no overdubs, no Auto-Tune, no edits — just real, live-in-the-studio, responsive, in-the-moment jazz.
The result is the mesmerizing Jenny Maybee & Nick Phillips album, Haiku. Dropping on January 29, 2016, the album release will be celebrated with a concert at Yoshi’s Oakland on February 1, 2016.
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