presents
THE SHIN feat. RANDY BRECKER
5 july 2005
| RANDY BRECKER |
trumpet
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| ZAZA MIMINOSHVILI |
guitar
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| ZURAB J. GAGNIDZE |
bass
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| MAMUKA GHAGHANIDZE |
vocal
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| RAYMOND KACZYNSKY |
drums |
Randy Brecker Biography
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A seasoned jazz veteran, virtuosic trumpeter and prolific composer, Randy Brecker's horn has graced the bandstands and recordings of Horace Silver, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Charles Mingus, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Frank Foster and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. As a first call studio player, Brecker's trumpet has also energized innumerable studio sessions by artists ranging from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament-Funkadelic to David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius, and Frank Zappa.
In the realms of cutting-edge jazz-rock fusion, Brecker has been a major contributor to Blood Sweat and Tears, Larry Coryell's Eleventh House and Dreams, a group he co-founded with his brother Michael and drummer Billy Cobham.
After departing BS&T in 1969, Randy appeared with Horace Silver and many other jazz acts feeling a need to stretch his desire to improvise freely. By 1973, Randy and his sax playing brother, Michael had become the most in-demand studio players in New York City. In 1975 they decided to form their own band, “The Brecker Brothers”.
The Brecker Brothers became a band of immeasurable influence and impact. Hailed by pop and jazz critics alike, their first album, which Randy produced, was nominated for four Grammy awards. The Brecker Brothers went on to record a total of 6 albums and receive seven Grammy nominations between 1975 and 1981. In the late 70's, Randy also recorded on Charles Mingus' last album, Me Myself an Eye. He has since performed on various incarnations of Mingus Dynasty and the Mingus Big Band.
After the Brecker Brothers took a hiatus in 1982, Randy toured and recorded extensively as a key member of Jaco Pastorius' Word of Mouth. Several more solo projects followed with numerous tours around the world with many different artists.
A ten year break from the Brecker Brothers ended in 1992 with the release of the GRP project “Return of the Brecker Brothers” and “Out of The Loop” in 1994 which received 2 Grammy awards and resulted in both USA and European tours.
Randy has been heavily influenced by Brazilian music. For the 1998 Concord Jazz release “Into The Sun” Randy received the Grammy award for best “Contemporary Jazz Performance”.
In the past few years he has made recordings and concert appearances with The Trumpet Summit band (featuring Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Terrel Stafford), The Jazz Times “Superband” (featuring organist Joey DeFrancesco, drummer Dennis Chambers and tenor saxophonist, Bob Berg), Brecker Brothers Acoustic Band , and special reunion of Larry Coryell's 11 th House.
Randy is now signed with ESC Records. First Cd on this label was “Hangin' in The City” which was released worldwide in April 2001 to considerable commercial and critical success. The release included all new funk/hip-hop and jazz compositions featuring the cream of the crop of NYC players.
Randy released in 2003 his new CD called “34 th N Lex” for the ESC label featuring Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, Fred Wesley, Ronnie Cuber and his regular working band and won with this release a Grammy as Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
Randy Brecker is a true musical pioneer who continues to perform extensively around the world in a variety of settings. His quest for musical excellence while constantly expanding his trumpet style and encyclopedic catalogue of compositions are unparallel.
www.randybrecker.com
The Shin Biography
'Shin' is a Georgian word and means ‘coming home'. The Shin accompany their musical 'HomeWay' with the Ibero-Caucasian style, which originates from the ancient culture, at the crossroads between Europe and Asia.
The Shin-Music - a fascinating fusion of jazz, European Music and the Orient.
The Shin consists of ZaZa Miminoshvili (Geo) on guitars, guitar-synths and panduri, Zurab J. Gagnidze (Geo) on a fretless e- and acoustic basses and vocals, Mamuka Ghaghanidze (Geo) on percussion and vocals, Raymond Kaczynski (USA) on drums and percussion.
The sonorous constructions that these musicians pile up connect lyrical passages of fragile beauty with wildly rapid cascades of notes and playful rhythms, the perfect stuff for anyone wanting to discover new sonorities and having an open ear for musical surprises. These musicians are virtuosic and humorous and explore all the possibilities of their respective instruments. The Shin is firmly rooted in tradition without standing still. The Shin bring a new sound that does not try to plough ahead in avant-garde manner. The personalities behind The Shin are in fact the musicians who have worked intensely for years as composers and live and studio musicians. A great deal of theater and film music has been born from their creative potential. The Shin now live and work in Germany.
Activities
• composers, live and studio musicians
• theatre music - in the Rustaveli Academic State Theatre in co-operation with the theatre director Robert Sturua for Brecht's ‘Dreigroschenoper' and ‘A Kind Man from Sezuan', Tchechov's ‘Ward No. 6', Calderon's ‘Life Is A Dream' (first performance at ‘Expo ‘92' in Sevilla);
• film music
• co-founder of the jazz group ADIO from Georgia; since 1993 in Germany
Endorsement
• since 1994 Godin Guitars; since 1997 BLUE CHIP Music Technology;
• workshops: Music Fair, Frankfurt, 1995 and 1998; Harman Company Fair, Heilbronn, 1996; Rock and Pop Music Fair Bonn, ‘Guitar yesterday and today', Bonn, 1997
Festivals and Concerts
Jazz Across the Border, Berlin; Uhuru World Music Festival, Solothurn; Black Sea Art Project, Istanbul; International Guitar Festival, Tbilisi; House of Blues, Chicago; Fabrik, Hamburg; Jazzkeller, Frankfurt; International Summer Festival Castle Auerbach; Jazz Spectacle, Wuppertal; Bach-Week, Heidelberg; Hessen Jazz, Idstein; Gostenhofer Jazztage, Nurnberg; Bayerischer Hof, Munich; Frankfurter Hof, Mainz; Karlstor Bahnhof, Heidelberg; Brussels; Salzburg; Antwerp; Portland; Seattle; San Francisco; Orange County, Pasadena; San Diego; New York; Washington D.C.
Broadcasting
TV shows on Channel One and Channel Two, Ibervision and Rustavi Two, Georgia; HR,NDR, BR, MDR, ermany; live performance in ‘Les Surprises des Martial Solal' at Radio France, Paris; KING-FM, Seattle, Voice of America; ARTE film production “Between the Worlds” , Germany-France
CD Productions
• ‘Shin'. F&C Records, 1995, Adio
• ‘Tseruli'. Acoustic Music Records, 1999, The Shin Duo
• ‘Lazutlar' II'. Kalan Muzik Yapim, 2000, Fuat Saka
• ‘The Legend of Tamar'. Erisioni Productions Inc., 2000, Georgian National Singing and Dancing Ensemble
• ‘Lazutlar' III'. Dogan Muzik Dagitim, 2002, Fuat Saka
• ‘ManyTimer'. BBB-Music, 2005, The Shin
Press Reports
They were the real sensation of the Wiesloch Guitar Festival with their wit and virtuoso, world encompassing and at the same time Georgian rooted Fusion-Jazz. . . .Georgian folk tunes, brilliantly mixed with Jazz and Samba, virtuoso, humorous, mature and yet playfully performed by TheShin, by far the most exciting and exquisite music of the festival, . . . brought the house down and dumbfounded the critics.
Akustik Gitarre, 6/99 Michael Lohr
In a time of commercialisation " The Shin" gave meaning and definition back to music: Music which stirred people's hearts, music with soul.
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung 31. March 1998
. . . an intense, closely linked sound creation, that still remains always clear and transparent.
Mark Siemons, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 31. May 1996
Listening to music is especially enjoyable when any attempt at an explanation or classification of it brings sweat to the brow . . .
Die Rheinpfalz, 20.10.99, (an)
. . . an indescribable adventure trip between the Black Sea and the Mississippi. . . . exceptionally funky, but at the same time meditative, on the one hand excitingly modern, although on the other somehow fine and exotic yet wholly intimate. Rating: Enchantingly creative!
Acoustic Guitar, 01/00, Michael Lohr
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