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About Sotto Voce
"An extraordinary composer leads this perky, irreverent group that somehow manages to orbit both the Marx Brothers and Sun Ra." - NEW YORK MAGAZINE "Nathanson remains one of the only songwriters who can simultaneously shed a tear while raising an eyebrow. His typically inspired characters and musical combinations make Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill an island of the mind; a place where you wish everybody knew your name." - ATLANTIC MONTHLY "Nathanson has a gift for counterpoint, meshing irregular riffs to mix spaciousness and propulsion. And he doesn't let one idiom contain him." - NEW YORK TIMES Sotto Voce is the brand new concept/album from the extraordinarily gifted and wide-open mind of alto sax player, composer and songwriter Roy Nathanson. The group features fellow Jazz Passengers Curtis Fowlkes and Sam Bardfeld, along with wunderkind bassist Tim Kiah and human beat-box/singer Napolean Maddox of Cincinnati hip-hop/jazz outfit Iswhat?! The album features six infectious new song-stories by Nathanson, as well as an interpolation of Bobby Hebb's mid-'60s R&B/pop smash "Sunny" and a gorgeous reading of great jazz composer Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "The Inflated Tear" with new lyrics by Roy Nathanson. Roy Nathanson has spent the last 25 years composing and performing free & post-bop jazz with an assortment of odd punk, world and new music projects coming out of the downtown NYC scene. He and Curtis Fowlkes formed the Jazz Passengers in the late `80s with members of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards. He has also composed soundtracks for a variety of movies including Raising Victor Vargas (with vibist Bill Ware), and written radio plays commissioned by NPR. Over the last two years, Nathanson has been utilizing the hip new Brooklyn club Barbès to workshop his new combination of stories, songs, poems and music, which has finally come to fruition on Sotto Voce. Enjoy!
