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MP3 Serafin LaRiviere - Nothing Goes Quietly
15 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Jazz Fusion
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Serafin LaRiviere releases his sophomore album, Nothing Goes Quietly, Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at Toronto’s venerable Hugh’s Room. Working with Dora Award winning Music Director, Waylen Miki, Serafin explores the songbooks of Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne, and showcases a few original tunes written by Waylen, Serafin and Juno Award winner Tony Quarrington.
“Waylen and I were fascinated by the idea of revisiting classic standards, with the intention of developing new harmonic and melodic sensibilities,” says Serafin. “Waylen has a real knack for taking the original melodic patterns and re-arranging them into something fresh and exciting. They’re still recognizable, but hopefully we’ve been able to re-interpret them respectfully and with some innovation.”
Serafin and Waylen began their working relationship under the expert tutelage of Toronto Jazz Impresario Jaymz Bee, who produced Serafin’s debut album ‘2am At The Torch Café.’ The album enjoyed airplay on https://www.tradebit.com, CBC and AM 740, as well as stations in Belgium, South Africa, The Netherlands and Italy. College radio responded well, and 2am Torch Café peaked at #3 on College Radio Jazz charts.
With Bee’s encouragement, the duo began performing together, honing an eclectic performance style in venues like The Montreal Bistro, The Gladstone Hotel, The Rosewater Supper Club, Gate 403 and Statlers Lounge. As album ideas surfaced, Serafin and Waylen reached out to friends and colleagues from 2am Torch Café, and began a collaborative project that showcased each musician’s individual strengths.
Canadian greats like Juno winners Tony Quarrington and Richard Underhill, Grammy nominee Kevin Clark, and National Jazz Award recipient George Koller rub shoulders with Toronto Jazz institutions like William Carn, Christopher Plock, Glenn Anderson and Great Bob Scott, infusing Waylen’s eclectic arrangements with a blend of urban vibe and dramatic sophistry.
“I think there’s a theatrical element at the root of all this,” Waylen says. “I brought a classical influence to the arrangements, bringing non-Jazz elements to the overall Jazz sensibility. It’s pastiche, really, a patchwork of different styles. We’re not reinventing the wheel;, we’re re-imagining it.”
Waylen’s experience as musical director of plays like An Inconvenient Musical, This Is Cancer, and the Dora Award winning SARSical, The Musical helped ensure an overall arc to the songs chosen for Nothing Goes Quietly. His enduring interest in composition not only brought forth the title track, but also the melodic tinkering with standards like Stormy Weather Bali Hai and Nature Boy, and Canadian classics like Gordon Lightfoot’s Song for a Winter’s Night.
“The original song is the root,” says Waylen. “As it develops, it’s important to explore other places the song could go.”
The choice of players who are composers and arrangers in their own rights gave Waylen a generous musical spectrum to draw from.
“We’re part of a variety of traditions in the Littlest Jazz Orchestra. We have so many great personalities, and every player almost becomes a character in the album’s story. They’re all part of the narrative.”
But the main characters at play in Nothing Goes Quietly are its creators, Waylen and Serafin.
“This album took a year to create,” Serafin says, “and both our lives changed so drastically in that period. It was such a time for growth and change and destruction and creation. I think that’s why the album title sat so perfectly for us both.
“We all live on the sufferance of others’ goodwill and whim; we may have our cherished moments pulled away from us, our hopes and plans scattered to capricious winds, but we’ll be damned if we let them go easily. Or quietly.”
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