Gene Ess & Fractal Attraction "eternal Monomyth" Album Release at The Falcon

Featuring Gene Ess/Guitar, Compositions, Thana Alexa/Voice, Adam Birnbaum/Piano,
Yasushi Nakamura/Bass, Jerome Jennings/Drums

"Ess is as dazzling a player as any six stringer (or seven) on the scene today..... With Fractal Attraction, Gene Ess absolutely transcends." H. Allen Williams/JazzTimes

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Since moving to New York in 1981, Ess has worked with Rashied Ali’s (John Coltrane) quintet, touring globally and recording a well-received album No One in Particular. Ess has played with: Carlos Santana, Ravi Coltrane, Lonnie Plaxico, Archie Shepp, Matt Garrison, Reggie Workman, Dave Liebman, Al Foster, Harvie S, Donny McCaslin, Danilo Perez, Killer Ray Appleton, Eddie Henderson, Scott Colley, Gene Jackson, David Berkman, Ari Hoenig, Rudy Royston, Nicki Parrott, James Weidman, Thana Alexa, Thomson Kneeland, Slide Hampton and Tigran Hamasyan...

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Featuring Gene Ess/Guitar, Compositions, Thana Alexa/Voice, Adam Birnbaum/Piano,
Yasushi Nakamura/Bass, Jerome Jennings/Drums

"Ess is as dazzling a player as any six stringer (or seven) on the scene today..... With Fractal Attraction, Gene Ess absolutely transcends." H. Allen Williams/JazzTimes

http://www.jazzgenemusic.com/
Since moving to New York in 1981, Ess has worked with Rashied Ali’s (John Coltrane) quintet, touring globally and recording a well-received album No One in Particular. Ess has played with: Carlos Santana, Ravi Coltrane, Lonnie Plaxico, Archie Shepp, Matt Garrison, Reggie Workman, Dave Liebman, Al Foster, Harvie S, Donny McCaslin, Danilo Perez, Killer Ray Appleton, Eddie Henderson, Scott Colley, Gene Jackson, David Berkman, Ari Hoenig, Rudy Royston, Nicki Parrott, James Weidman, Thana Alexa, Thomson Kneeland, Slide Hampton and Tigran Hamasyan. Ess’ 2009 album, Modes of Limited Transcendence, was warmly received globally and won the prestigious 2010 SESAC Outstanding Jazz Performance Award. A Thousand Summers (2012), featured Nicki Parrott on vocals and focused on songs from the jazz canon creatively arranged by Ess and Thomson Kneeland.

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