Bird with Streams, by Jon Irabagon

Bird with Streams

by Jon Irabagon

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Bryan Galatis This recording is incredible!
Love the nature sounds throughout.
Would loved to’ve been hiking through Falling Rock while JI was practicing! Favorite track: Moose the Mooche.

Giles I'm sure there's a very long thesis to be written about trading fours with literal birds. but it's also just so fun to hear! a wonderful and astonishing demonstration of what one guy with a sax can do. maybe my favorite Irabagon, which is saying a lot!

ps forgot when writing this that trading bars with a river/waterfall is also a new thing invented here worthy of much study and listening!

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1.	Anthropology 01:32	buy track
2.	Sippin' at Bells 03:27	buy track
3.	Bebop 05:11	buy track
4.	Ornithology 03:56	buy track
5.	Now's the Time 04:03	buy track
6.	Donna Lee 02:45	buy track
7.	Hot House 04:23	buy track
8.	B. Schwifty 05:29	buy track
9.	Mohawk 03:11	buy track
10.	KC Blues 03:10	buy track
11.	Get Schwifty 01:36	buy track
12.	Segment 03:22	buy track
13.	Moose the Mooche 02:25	buy track
14.	Blues for Alice 03:31	buy track
15.	Quasimodo 05:42	buy track

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The sounds of birds, deer, hikers, roaring rivers, slackliners, helicopters, motorcycles and semi-trucks.

The atmosphere morphing form the calmest, most picturesque day to torrential wind and hailstorms.

The peaceful meditation found from the utter chaos that led to this album.

My family escaped COVID-stricken New York City in March 2020, retreating to the in-laws' place in South Dakota. I started looking for a practice space away from Zoom conference calls and neighbors accustomed to a quiet life. I discovered Falling Rock-- a secluded canyon on the outskirts of town that offered peace, solitude, fresh air and an opportunity to work on innumerable musical ideas-- all with varying kinds of reverb as a backdrop, depending on where I chose to open the saxophone case that day. Our weeklong stay extended into a month, then eight. Thankfully, this ravine became my home away from home away from home, with unbound inspiration for composition, exploration, study and introspection to be-- in hindsight-- thankful for.

You have in your hands just one of the outcomes from these isolated experiments-- a work that would not have been made otherwise. Charlie Parker's centennial birthday came and went during my time at Falling Rock; his music, ideas and meaning were consistently bubbling up to the surface of my thoughts and practice. This album represents a fight against nature, both viral and atmospheric. Recording this album was my attempt to grow and learn while the world went haywire and lost its damn mind. Thank you for taking this journey with me, six feet away.

Jon Irabagon 3/1/21

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released July 2, 2021

Recorded in different locations in Falling Rock, South Dakota, at the edge of the Black Hills National Forest, over the late summer/early fall of 2020.

Produced, recorded and edited by Jon Irabagon

Mixed by Ben Rubin at House of Cha Cha, Brooklyn www.benrubin.com

Mastered by Nate Wood

Photos by Talia Irabagon and Jon Irabagon

Design by Balto!

All tracks by Charlie Parker (Atlantic Music Corp) except
Sippin' at Bells by Miles Davis (Screen Gems-- EMI Music Inc.),
Bebop by Dizzy Gillespie (Universal-- MCA Music Publishing),
Anthropology by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (Atlantic Music Corp/Music Sales Corp),
Ornithology by Charlie Parker and Benny Harris (Atlantic Music Corp),
Hot House by Tadd Dameron (WB Music Corp) and
B. Schwifty and Get Schwifty by Jon Irabagon (F Magellan Music, ASCAP)

Special thanks to Denise, Rob and Tami James, Erik and Michelle Swanson and Talia and Xalyra Irabagon.

This album is dedicated to Tom Beckwith, Mark Colby, Frank Kimbrough and Steve Schoene.

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Jon Irabagon Chicago, Illinois

Chicago-based composer, bandleader, saxophonist and label-owner. Dr. Mario enthusiast. Dave Douglas Quintet, Mary Halvorson Quintet, Sextet and Septet, Barry Altschul's 3dom Factor, Rudy Royston's 303 and Rise of Orion Trio, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Uri Caine's Catbird, etc. ... more

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