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From the CD liner
notes by Peter Erskine
“I count myself as
extremely fortunate to have been able to work
alongside such incredible musicians as Mike Mainieri,
Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Bob Mintzer, Randy
Brecker, Marc Johnson, John Patitucci, Kenny Werner,
Alan Pasqua, Alex Acuna, Zakir Hussain, The WDR Big
Band (Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Germany), Bill
Dobbins, Vince Mendoza, and the others whose work
appears on this CD collection of previously
unreleased tracks, spanning a time period between
March, 1991 and March of 1996. I thank everyone for
their superlative contributions to the music, and I
thank you for listening!
While I was assembling the music for this CD, it
occurred to me that something like "Around The World
in Seventy Minutes" would make for an appropriate
title. We start in "Bulgaria" via Koln, Germany
(recorded with the great WDR Big Band and Mike
Mainieri), followed by my German lieder-inspired
ballad "If Only I Had Known," and then make our way
to New York City (Kenny Werner's "Herbie Nichols, "
featuring Joe Lovano), heading down south for some
"Sweet Soul" with John Scofield, and then we scoot
out to New Mexico for Alan Pasqua's "Milagro"
(miracle); going further south and back east to "Caribe,"
all of a sudden we are in Madras and Cuba
simultaneously with "A to Z" (Acuna on bata, Zakir
on tabla), and after that we check out the stars
from a vantage point in the far north of Scotland
("Northern Cross"); my solo, "Sub Dude," is a sort
of global drum anthem, and we finish up in Europe at
the cold Danish castle of Prince Hamlet ("To Be Or
Not To Be").
1.
Bulgaria CLICK ON TITLE TO LISTEN!
(P. Erskine 10:27)
2. If Only I Had Known (P. Erskine 7:44)
3. Herbie Nichols (K. Werner 5:59)
4. Sweet Soul (P. Erskine 9:59)
5. Milagro (A. Pasqua 5:34)
6. Caribe (A. Pasqua 7:15)
7. A to Z (A. Bennett 6:01)
8.
Northern Cross CLICK TITLE TO LISTEN!
(P. Erskine 6:19)
9. Sub Dude (P. Erskine 3:33)
10. To Be Or Not To Be (P. Erskine 6:46)
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