February 2013 Catalog Of Exclusive Releases - Forced Exposure

DOUG CARNInfant EyesLabelSNOW DOG RECORDSFormatCDCatalog NumberSDGBJ 1203CDEAN4526180110736Y(5C61IA*LLKRNQ(Store Price$10.99Release Date02/05/13TerritoryNORTH AMERICAN EXCLUSIVEGenreFILE UNDER - C - JAZZDESCRIPTION"Doug Carn created a personalized strain of jazz music that expressed a lovinghopefulness. He found a home at the Black Jazz label, where African-Americanscalled the shots and, of course, racial tension was nonexistent. Who was this 22-year-old whose first album, Infant Eyes, sold very well away from the machinationsof the music industry? Once a child prodigy on piano and alto saxophone, Carnhad attended Jacksonville University on a full music scholarship and afterwardsperformed on the Florida-Georgia roadhouse circuit with a band that mixed jazz,rock and R&B. Following his muse to Los Angeles, he worked in an organ trio andstudied with organ and piano player Larry Young, who had co-founded theseminal jazz-rock band Tony Williams' Lifetime and recorded an excellentmid-1960s hard-bop record titled Unity, among other things. A devout Muslim,Young (Khalid Yasin) surely deepened Carn's appreciation of John Coltrane's1964 album, A Love Supreme, that stunning merger of musicality and spirituality.Carn assumes several roles well: organ and piano player, arranger and lyricist.His wife at the time, Jean, is just as impressive singing. First track 'Welcome' -- aColtrane piece found on the early 1960s collection The Gentle Sound of JohnColtrane -- has Jean's operatic voice and a swirl of instruments conjuring a state ofawe in just over a minute. Next, Jean displays a world of conviction singing thejoyous lyrics about a newborn that Doug penned for vibraphonist BobbyHutcherson's 'Little B's Poem' (originally an instrumental on Hutcherson'sComponents album). Jean opens still another vista of wonder singing the newlyrics of the melodic Wayne Shorter ballad 'Infant Eyes.' Jean also contributesglowingly to the take-no-prisoners 'Acknowledgement,' a near-total immersion in 'ALove Supreme.' This Coltrane homage has a round-robin of good, probing solosby George Harper on tenor, Bob Frazier on trumpet and Al Hall, Jr. ontrombone." --Frank-John Hadley, Downbeat; Personnel: Doug Carn (pianoelectric piano, organ), Jean Carn (vocals), George Harper (tenor sax, flute), BobFrazier (trumpet, flugelhorn), Henry Franklin (bass), Al Hall, Jr. (trombone),Michael Carvin (drums).TRACKLISTING01. Welcome02. Little B's Poem03. Moon Child04. Infant Eyes05. Passion Dance06. Acknowledgement07. PeaceHIGHLIGHTS• Snow Dog Records reissues the 1971 album by jazz pianist Doug Carn,originally released on Black Jazz Records.• Takes cues from music by John Coltrane.Also available:(SDGBJ 1208CD) Doug Carn: Spirit of the New Land CD [EAN #4526180114246]Press Contact: eric@forcedexposure.comExclusively Distributed by219 Medford Street, Malden, MA 02148ph: (781) 321-0320 • fx: (781) 321-0321fe@forcedexposure.com41 New Releases February 5th 2013