Album Review: IRA The Tribute Album from The Blue Road Records Band
Album: IRA The Tribute Album
Artist: The Blue Road Records Band
Label: Blue Road Records
Websites: www.blueroadrecordsstudio.com
www.brevsullivanguitar.com
The house band for Blue Road Records, which includes guitarist Brev Sullivan, the son of the late saxophonist Ira Sullivan, celebrate the works of Ira Sullivan on their new release IRA The Tribute Album. The bebop artisan Ira Sullivan has performed with jazz luminaries like Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Roland Kirk, and Art Blakey, scoring himself solos that resonated with artists of his class. As time passed, Sullivan chose to focus on teaching at the esteemed Frost School of Music, becoming one of the leading jazz educators in the U.S., mentoring several generations of up-and-coming musicians.
Sullivan's music reflects the complex nature of jazz fusion, partnering elements of blues, pop, bebop jazz, swing, and soft rock. Part smooth jazz and part adult contemporary, the music of Ira Sullivan is performed by the Blue Road Records Band with a sensitivity for detail and a reverence for Sullivan's consonant instrumentation. The swirling notes and silky spirals of the saxophone performed by Yainer Horta are sequenced with the bluesy raptures of guitarists Leo Quintero and Brev Sullivan throughout the recording.
"Circumstantial" is a tamed fire that coordinates the vibrant tremors of the guitar with the smooth ripples of the saxophone. The rustling vibrations billowing along "Icarus" lift listeners off the ground with breathtaking aerials performed on the guitar while the steamy streaks of the electric guitar coursing through "Nineveh" traverse into power pop vistas.
A standard bebop tune, “Our Delight” is primped in spinning drums and a lively pulse in the guitar riffs, adjusting to a Latin-leaning shimmy across “The Little Train of Caipira.” Ira Sullivan was deeply religious and would close his sets with “Amazing Grace.” The band honors his memory with an emotive interpretation featuring Brev Sullivan on guitar playing the main motifs.
Ira Sullivan's body of work and the impressions he made as a bebop influencer and educator are celebrated on the Blue Road Records Band's tribute. The band brings out the fusion-inspired aspects of Ira Sullivan's compositions while maintaining his consonant instrumentation definitively.
Musicians:
Brev Sullivan - lead guitar
Leo Quintero - lead guitar
Miriam Stone - acoustic & electric guitar
Javier Espinoza - bass
Yainer Horta - keyboards & sax
Kevin Abanto - drums & percussion
Artist: The Blue Road Records Band
Label: Blue Road Records
Websites: www.blueroadrecordsstudio.com
www.brevsullivanguitar.com
The house band for Blue Road Records, which includes guitarist Brev Sullivan, the son of the late saxophonist Ira Sullivan, celebrate the works of Ira Sullivan on their new release IRA The Tribute Album. The bebop artisan Ira Sullivan has performed with jazz luminaries like Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Roland Kirk, and Art Blakey, scoring himself solos that resonated with artists of his class. As time passed, Sullivan chose to focus on teaching at the esteemed Frost School of Music, becoming one of the leading jazz educators in the U.S., mentoring several generations of up-and-coming musicians.
"Circumstantial" is a tamed fire that coordinates the vibrant tremors of the guitar with the smooth ripples of the saxophone. The rustling vibrations billowing along "Icarus" lift listeners off the ground with breathtaking aerials performed on the guitar while the steamy streaks of the electric guitar coursing through "Nineveh" traverse into power pop vistas.
A standard bebop tune, “Our Delight” is primped in spinning drums and a lively pulse in the guitar riffs, adjusting to a Latin-leaning shimmy across “The Little Train of Caipira.” Ira Sullivan was deeply religious and would close his sets with “Amazing Grace.” The band honors his memory with an emotive interpretation featuring Brev Sullivan on guitar playing the main motifs.
Ira Sullivan's body of work and the impressions he made as a bebop influencer and educator are celebrated on the Blue Road Records Band's tribute. The band brings out the fusion-inspired aspects of Ira Sullivan's compositions while maintaining his consonant instrumentation definitively.
Musicians:
Brev Sullivan - lead guitar
Leo Quintero - lead guitar
Miriam Stone - acoustic & electric guitar
Javier Espinoza - bass
Yainer Horta - keyboards & sax
Kevin Abanto - drums & percussion
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