Tom Dempsey / Tim Ferguson Quartet - Waltz NewPaying tribute to the profound effect Jim Hall had on their music, guitarist Tom Dempsey and bassist Tim Ferguson's fourth album together approaches six of Hall's classic compositions, and several standards that the guitarist made distinctively his own over a storied career. Featuring saxophonist Joel Frahm and drummer Eliot Zigmund, the quartet explores "All Across The City," "Something Special" and the title track, all by Hall, and their take on

a concierge at a posh New York hotel with hopes of opening his own luxury hotel

for which Empirion have also brought some great remixers to the start: Cubanate

This first of four volumes represents award-winning guitarist Adam Levin's major collaboration with the new century's 'Spanish Masters'

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'Can Ya Tell Me'

daydreaming of the magic he's seen

thumping percussion

The two-piano music heard on this recording was written mostly in the late 1920s for the husband and wife piano duet team

From the dadaist titles and surrealist cover artwork to the absurdly peculiar lyrics and dementedly brilliant musical bent that careened from country to jazz to Morricone-inspired Western soundtracks

It's like an exuberant fusion of Kanye West

thereby liberating his voice as an instrument for shamanic guidance

Gritty atmospherics