Saxophonist Ellery Eskelin Announces new CD on own Label

Press release
Source: Jazz Promo Services

Quiet Music

Quiet Music is a double CD release recorded in 2006 in France during the band's spring European tour. The music is presented exactly as an audience would experience the band in concert, two hours of music played with an intensity only gained from performing night after night on the road.

Quiet Music presents 14 new compositions by Eskelin. There are trio pieces by Eskelin w/ Parkins & Black building upon on twelve years of work together as well as quartet pieces with the addition of Jessica Constable in which Eskelin further explores new compositional strategies. Quiet Music also includes several double keyboard quintet pieces with the addition of French keyboardist Philiippe Gelda giving the group a particularly massive sound.

The two discs are presented in an attractive, slim six panel cardboard sleeve with original artwork by Rami Wade Eskelin.

For complete information on Quiet Music please visit to the new "prime source" website: prime souce

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"More than a decade into its collective existence, the trio of tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, accordionist-keyboardist Andrea Parkins and percussionist Jim Black shows no sign of settling into a predictable groove. Quiet Music, a new two-CD set issued on Eskelin’s Prime Source label, picks up right where Ten, the last in an exceptional string of albums for Hatology, left off. Singer Jessica Constable, who guested on Ten, is now completely integrated into the group; her breathy, wordless voice murmurs and snakes alongside Eskelin’s smoky horn, set against ever-changing panoramas created by Parkins, Black and occasional guest keyboardist Philippe Gelda. The music is elusive (if not always quiet), but the band’s interplay is never less than taut and secure." — Steve Smith Time Out New York