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For those unaware, EVEN ODDS is a trio led by Drummer Dan Weiss, featuring two of the leading voices of their generation in improvised music, Miguel Zenón on alto saxophone and Matt Mitchell on Piano.

Three time Shifting Foundation grantee Dan Weiss has been hailed as one of the top five jazz drummers by The New York Times, and his large ensemble recording “Fourteen” made the top ten list of their best recordings of 2014.

Weiss’s innovative drumming and forward-thinking compositions have been pushing musical limits for decades. Weiss’s intense study of jazz, classical Indian, contemporary classical, west African, and metal sets a musical platform that creates a sound that transcends conventional style or genre.

His compositional trademarks are angular yet emotive melodies, complex through-composed drum parts, rhythmic cycles native to many non-western music, and melodic shapes drawing directly from the raga system found in Indian classical music.

1. It Is What It Is
2. The Children of Uvalde
3. Bu
4. Rising
5. Recover the Mindset
6. M and M
7. Horizontal Lifestyle
8. Vertical Lifestyle
9. Five to Nine
10. Ititrefen
11. Too Many Outs
12. Runner-Runner
13. Nineteen to the Dozen
14. Max Roach
15. Bribes and Ultimatums
16. Royal Beatings
17. Fathers and Daughters
18. Peculiar Pathos of Self Importance
19. Conversing with Stillness
20. Nusrat

This delightfully musical, and wholly rhythmic new recording opens on the _________ of It Is What It Is, the _____________ of The Children of Uvalde and the ____________ of Bu and they are followed by the __________ of Rising, the _______________ of Recover the Mindset, the _________ of M and M, before the ____________ of Horizontal Lifestyle, the ___________ of Vertical Lifestyle and both the ____________ of Five to Nine and the ______________ of Ititrefen are brought forth.

Along next is the _____________ of Too Many Outs, the ________ of Runner-Runner and the ______________ of Nineteen to the Dozen, and they are in turn backed by the ___________ of Max Roach, the ______________ of Bribes and Ultimatums and the _______________ of Royal Beatings, the album rounding out on the _____________ of Fathers and Daughters, the _________________ of Peculiar Pathos of Self Importance, closing on the ____________ of Conversing with Stillness and the _____________ of Nusrat.

Musicians:
Dan Weiss - Drums and compositions
Miguel Zenón - Alto Saxophone
Matt Mitchell - Piano

www.danweiss.net

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