Cellar Music Group is proud to announce the November 10, 2023 release of Home Cookin’ by celebrated saxophonist Cory Weeds and his Little Big Band.Mop

Weeds’ eleven-piece ensemble features a ‘who’s who’ of all-star Vancouver-based players who beautifully interpret arrangements by renowned jazz artists and arrangers Bill Coon and Jill Townsend as well as two breath-taking original compositions.

Weeds’ singular tenor saxophone sound is complemented by pianist Chris Gestrin, bassist John Lee, drummer Jesse Cahill, lead alto saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, tenor saxophonist James Danderer, baritone saxophonist Dave Say, trombonists Brian Harding and Jim Hopson, and trumpeters Brad Turner and Chris Davis.

Cory Weeds’ first Little Big Band release, 2018’s Explosion, showcased some of the bandleader’s favorite musicians from New York City. Home Cookin’ strikes a more personal tone by featuring Weeds’ favorite musicians in his home city of Vancouver.

A natural progression from his first Little Big Band release – Home Cookin’ tells a story of the great city of Vancouver and of Weeds’ journey from there and back again.

1. Home Cookin’ (5:38)
2. Corner Kisses (5:00)
3. Blossoms In May (6:02)
4. Power Station (5:06)
5. Thedia (5:03)
6. Lullaby Of The Leaves (5:36)
7. Metamorphosis (6:54)

This magnificently hued new recording opens on the super smooth roll of the titular Home Cookin’ and the playfully flirtive Corner Kisses (composed by Weeds’ father), before we are next brought the luxuriant Blossoms In May (a throwback to Weeds’ very first date as a leader).

Along next is the finger-snapping, sturdy bop of Power Station (a track that is bolstered by a Little Big Band treatment to pianist Michael Weiss’ cut) and the free-flowing Thad Jones’ Thedia, the album rounding out on the mid-tempo rhythmic grooves found within the soulful Lullaby Of The Leaves, closing on the swinger Metamorphosis.

The release of A Lovesome Thing finds Rosenwinkel in a watershed moment as he tours to support the four Heartcore albums that he’s released since January of 2022: Undercover, Berlin Baritone, The Chopin Project, and Kurt Rosenwinkel Plays Piano. Happily, he will be joining Motéma in Paris on as part of a three-night celebration of the label’s 20th Anniversary releases to take place at the Sunset/Sunside Club in Paris on November 2–4.

On Nov 2 & 3, the Afro/jazz/flamenco trio Flamenkora and Mongolian piano sensation Shuteen Erdenebaatar (with her Quartet) will celebrate their debut recordings, and then on November 4, Rosenwinkel will close out the celebration with music from A Lovesome Thing performed with pianist Gerald Clayton who previously worked under Allen’s wing in her ‘Errol Garner, Concert by the Sea’ project.

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