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To Be With You by Jorge Sylvester

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"To Be With You" by Jorge Sylvester

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Album Title: Spirit Driven
Label: Self Produced
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Composed by: Nick Jimenez - melody and lyrics by Willie Torres When I first heard this song, I fell in love with it and the smooth beguiling vocals of Jimmy Sabater who became an international hit after this album was released. I arranged the version I sing on the new release of Spirit Driven on foUR Records (friends of Unseen Rain label) as a member of the Jorge Sylvester ACE Collective - also a sextet consisting of Jorge Sylvester - alto saxophone, composer, arranger, leader; Waldron Mahdi Ricks, trumpet; Nora McCarthy, voice, composition, poetry; Pablo Vergara, piano, Donald Nicks, electric bass; Kenny Grohowski, drums. The Jorge Sylvester ACE Collective is “an all-star jazz band that knows how to swing, to improvise with spontaneity and poise, and to respond to one another with telepathic immediacy and profound respect. Their new double CD release Spirit Driven, on foUR Records TM, is the result of a lifetime of spirit driven preparation by each musician – Jorge Sylvester: brilliant composer and arranger, virtuoso alto saxophonist; Nora McCarthy: daringly original, versatile, and fearlessly honest singer, composer, and poet. Waldron Mahdi Ricks: impeccably artful trumpet player, a jazz master in his own right; Pablo Vergara: astoundingly imaginative pianist, musically fluent on an encyclopedic, global scale; Donald Nicks: journeyman artisan of the bass, unfailingly, and always tastefully, providing the musical foundation; Kenny Grohowski: uncannily precise and inventive drummer and percussionist.” Spirit Driven, the group’s first recording, is a highly rhythmic and spiritually motivated compositional journey through the various cultures that make up the Caribbean Islands encompassing their significance and contribution to the present day advanced musical concepts in jazz and avant-garde/free music. It uses the “word” in the form of poetry and lyrics to convey each song’s spiritual and historical message. “The music continuously flows and develops with a lithe bodily grace and expressive range, transfiguring its structural complexity and technical virtuosity into an intimate and honest gesture of oneness with each listener, only possible by virtue of consummate musicianship.” – Ramsey Ameen

Personnel

Jorge Sylvester
saxophone, alto

Date featured

June 22, 2013

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