Bus 61

from PARKER PLAYS X by Richard X Bennett & Matt Parker

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This 4 sided CD package comes with a wonderful 19-page booklet that features short stories and liner notes by Richard X Bennett. Album designed by Lauren Webster

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lyrics

Fear

Brooklyn’s Bus 61 runs from bougie Park Slope over the toxic Gowanus Canal through the gritty Red Hook Projects past the striving Brooklyn waterfront and ends up at the tech-meets-funky downtown. Every class of citizen rides this bus with almost no interaction between them. In 2020 the streets were empty, the rides were free, the passengers were nervous and the drivers were speeding. Now BQE construction has ground this route to a virtual halt.

Musical Notes: A very short piano/drum intro is followed by a jaunty melody in three quarter time played in octaves by Armstrong and Parker, doing their jazz heritage names proud. Each chorus drops a beat at its end in order to to speed things along. This bus is in a hurry!
The solos are brief as is the reprise. If the modern jazz paradigm is a Russian novel (long intros, long melodic expositions, long solos, long interludes, long digressions) Bus 61 is a paragraph at most.

credits

from PARKER PLAYS X, released May 5, 2023
Richard X Bennett - piano & composition
Matt Parker - soprano sax
Adam Armstrong - bass
Julian Edmond - drums

art by Alex Clayton

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about

Richard X Bennett Brooklyn, New York

In NYC composer/pianist Richard X Bennett has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Guggenheim Museum, The Rubin Museum, Brooklyn Museum & Central Park Summerstage. Internationally, his bands have played in over twenty countries. He has twelve albums on Indian, American & British labels.
"Hypnotic" - New Sounds
"unabashedly joyous, groove-centric, spiritually danceable" NYC Jazz Review ... more

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