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Drew Gress, THE IRRATIONAL NUMBERS

With The Irrational Numbers, composer/bassist Drew Gress adds another stellar album to his already impressive discography of smart and uncompromising modern jazz. Utilizing the same core group of players who appeared on Gress' previous Premonition album, 7 Black Butterflies, Gress demonstrates, and continues to develop a rare alchemy in jazz: the seamless merging of serious harmonic and melodic structuralism with free and open-ended improvisations. On previous efforts, he has emphasized the blowing. After all, this is a group of musicians who can, and will, play anything. With "The Irrational Numbers," however Gress leans more on the compositions and on his own emphatic bass playing (there are 6 Gress solos on the album). The effect is to step back and view an important work of art from a completely different perspective. You see what you saw before but it is enhanced and enlivened by the different angle. Among the 10 new Gress compositions on the album, "Chevelle," "Your Favorite Kind," "By Far," and "True South," are standouts.

"The Irrational Numbers" features Tim Berne on saxophone, Tom Rainey on drums, Craig Taborn on piano, Ralph Alessi on trumpet Drew Gress on bass and electronics. David Torn, who produced 7 Black Butterflies, is back and adds his brilliant touch.

"Patricia Barber, The Premonition Years: 1994-2002 is one of the coolest vocal box sets you'll encounter anywhere for quite a long while ... Brilliant." -Buffalo News
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Premonition Records is pleased to announce the release of its first two Box Sets. These beautifully packaged and amazing sounding compilations celebrate the two most recorded artists on Premonition: vocalist/pianist Patricia Barber and tenor saxophone legend Von Freeman. The recordings from which these sets were compiled were incredibly well received in their time and in fact drove Premonition's 5 year joint imprint relationship with one of jazz's most important labels, Blue Note Records. The numerous bonus tracks and addition material Premonition has included make these very special releases indeed. Read all about Patricia and Von at www.premonitionrecords.com.

As a very special offer, Musicstem is now offering both box sets for the low low price of $49.98. That's five CDs packed with over 300 minutes music, including 8 bonus tracks, and two, rare and historical video clips. The sets also include 16- page booklets including long-form essays by noted critic Neil Tesser and beaut iful slipcase packaging designed by the great Steve Byram. For you audiophile fans, the re-release of this material was supervised by the Grammy-winning New York engineer Jim Anderson and re-mastered from analog sources by one of New York's finest mastering engineers, Alan Silverman. Anderson, who did all the original Barber recordings, says "these tracks have never sounded better." Can you say "Christmas gift"?