"MY FAVOURITE THINGS" & "UNLIMITED-SLIP DIFF" AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD MUSICAL OUTLETS
All Albums can also be purchased through Daimon:
jazz_deliverance@yahoo.com.au
or alternatively through CD BABY - www.cdbaby.com or electronically through itunes
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MY FAVOURITE THINGS
My Favourite Things is the hotly anticipated third release from the popular Melbourne jazz group, The Daimon Brunton Quartet.
“It's strong melodically as well as having some harmonic ideas which I think are quite cutting edge,” says Daimon. “But beyond all the Avant-garde stuff, what I'm really trying to achieve is music that is beautiful. I'll always go for beauty over impressive.”
The album begins with a piano accordion styled Parisian waltz and concludes with a soulful, New Orleans Bourbon Street parade. In between listeners are taken on a world journey with stops at some bass-popping funk and Arabesque trumpet solos. The title track is Daimon's reharmonisation of the tune Coltrane made popular in jazz circles, featuring none other than the organ at Melbourne's own St Francis' church. “Needless to say it's a very, very big sound,” comments Daimon.
Daimon's drive to push the boundaries of the sound and form of contemporary jazz is also evident in his use of writing a couple of tunes in rondo form. “That's something no one really uses in jazz, but it turned out to give us more storytelling power,” he adds.
For the past 12 years, the DBQ has been toiling away in a city with far more supply than demand for jazz. The past couple of years have found them making something of a home and an ever-increasing fan base at the uber-hip downstairs laneway club, Paris Cat.
With Daimon on trumpet, the rest of the Quartet features well known local muos: Mark Lockett on drums, Michael Story on bass and Daniel Gassin on keys, fresh from being a finalist at last year's prestigious Montreaux Jazz Festival.
My Favourite Things is set to appeal not only to fans of jazz, but also to anyone who enjoys hearing exciting, new, Melbourne made music. If your favourite things include tunes that groove with real passion, energy, and above all, beauty, you'll love the latest from The Daimon Brunton Quartet.
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UNLIMITED-SLIP DIFF
Trumpeter Daimon Brunton describes the sound of his new album Unlimited-Slip Diff as “pop melodies with funky beats and jazz harmonies” in the upbeat style of Grover Washington Jr or Freddie Hubbard, with, “a few Clifford Brown licks thrown in”.
Having played for eleven years at most of Melbourne’s venues, The Daimon Brunton Quartet is one of the city’s most hard-working and popular small jazz groups. Their 2003 CD, Never Again Such Beauty, was available only at gigs and was a hit with the group’s many loyal fans.
Unlimited Slip-Diff explores new directions made possible by fusing jazz harmonies with funk and hip-hop grooves. Eleven of the twelve numbers are original compositions or original arrangements and four tracks utilize two drummers simultaneously. The two covers/arrangements of the Flintstones Theme and the Sesame Street Theme are smokin’ groove driven charts that will have your toe tapping instantly. The Sesame Street track is the very first recorded take. It steams away at over 170 beats per minute and with the funky trumpet lead, two drummers screaming simultaneously, the Wurlitzer organ wailing and the guitar chompin’ at the bit this track will having you begging for more.
The final original, O Thankyou Lord is a 16 Bar, trad/stomping blues which calls for a New Orleans setting and a serve of fried chicken to seal the deal. With no over-dubbing or fancy technological tricks Unlimited Slip-Diff really is a live gig recorded in a studio. It’s filled with energy and raw emotion.
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NEVER AGAIN SUCH BEAUTY
Although initially under the guise of 'Jazz Deliverance', 'The Daimon Brunton Quartet' was born in mid-1996. From January 1997 the band began working professionally and has been gigging ceaselessly ever since.
In 2003 the band went into the studio and recorded its first album 'Never Again Such Beauty' (now under the Daimon Brunton name). Although a distribution agreement had been reached, Daimon decided against this path at the eleventh hour and the album was only ever sold at gigs. 550 units were produced and there are no plans for more. This made 'Never Again Such Beauty' somewhat of a collectors item among fans.
The album begins with a lamenting piano and trumpet duet, 'Never Again Such Beauty' and concludes with the gospel inspired 'And We're Going To Church'. These originals are interspersed with standards such as Miles Davis' 'Seven Steps To Heaven', Clifford Brown's 'Gertrude's Bounce' and Thelonious Monk's 'Well You Needn't'.
Between the years of 1996 and 2002 the band's personnel was extremely stable and they had been delving into the enormous back-catalogue of jazz standards and writing diverse sounding originals. 'Never Again Such Beauty' is a combination of classic jazz standards and the cream of the originals written in that period.
Some fans believe that 'Never Again Such Beauty' is the best of the three albums so far. One fan said that there was something about it he couldn't get away from and he listened to it for three months continuously.
Whatever you make of it there is no denying that this limited, somewhat private, release was the launch pad for the future success of 'The Daimon Brunton Quartet' and paved the way for 'Unlimited-Slip Diff' and 'My Favourite Things'.
The Daimon Brunton Quartet
Daimon Brunton m: 0418 569 338 e: jazz_deliverance@yahoo.com.au
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