Nathan Parker Smith "Not Dark Yet"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Label: Jazz Underground Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 14, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Mega 01:04
2. Interstellar Radiation Field 02:17
3. Dark Matter 03:45
4. Rhetoric Machine 03:29
5. Fog Over East 05:04
6. Creature Rebellion 04:20
7. Solace 03:49
8. Spin 04:25
9. Build and Destroy 02:45
10. Monsters 02:20
11. Carrington Super Flare 03:23

Line-up: 
Kevin Russell, Chris Shade, Michael Thomas, Justin Flynn, Alden Banta - saxophones
Augie Haas, David Smith, Josh Deutsch, Matt Holman - trumpets
Matthew McDonald, Nick Finzer, JC Sanford, James Rogers - trombones
Landon Knoblock - Rhodes
Kenji Shinagawa - guitar
Russ Flynn - bass
Jared Schonig - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Rock bands with horn sections are pretty rare. Modern creative heavy metal horn bands are rarer still, and Nathan Parker Smith just might have the only one in the world.
California native Smith formed his Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble back in ’09, impressing audiences around NYC venues with his fresh approach to the tried-and-true big band concept. Winner of multiple prestigious prizes in jazz compositions, Smith goes further than using his Large Ensemble as merely a vehicle for his songs; he invests just as much into how these songs are rendered.
Infusing them with dollops of contemporary classical, prog rock and Euro-style heavy metal, Smith finds new ways to harness the power of thirteen horns: five saxophones, four trumpets and four trombones. At the core lies an electric rock quartet with Landon Knoblock on Rhodes Kenji Shinagawa on guitar, Russ Flynn on bass and Jared Schonig on drums. These guys also have the green light to improvise, too (within the parameters of the compositions, of course), making these performances even more unpredictable.

  Read the full review by S. Victor Aaron at somethingelsereviews.com

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Bandcamp (4 tracks)
Progstreaming

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