Jason Sandford
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Here’s the press release:
The E.Normus Trio is an adventurous Jazz spirit comprised of Steve Alford on alto clarinet, Jay Sanders on bass, and Billy Seawell on drums. On November 4th and 5th they will be joined on the fender rhodes by noted Chicago jazz composer Charles D. Bayne who has written a suite of tunes for the E.Normus Trio to perform and record live at the Rocket Club. The show starts at 10pm each night and is available to listeners at no charge.
This live recording of original material by D. Bayne, Sanders, Seawell and Alford emphasizes the emerging crossover sound of Chicago’s Independent Music Scene with Western North Carolina’s Appalachian Roots and will be released on Luminescence Records.
D. Bayne is a fourteen year Chicago native, keyboardist, band leader and owner of Luminescence Records, a label that showcases artists from Chicago’s improvised music scene. As a writer he is known for his complex yet hauntingly lyrical melodies and chord progressions.
Alford is a Chicago ex-patriot bass clarinetist and saxophonist that now teaches the jazz program at Mars Hill College and is (to his knowledge) the only musician currently developing the alto clarinet as a lead voice instrument; he states, “I think I am the best alto clarinet player in the whole wide world. . . I guess I am probably the worst as well, though.”
The fusion of Alford with one of the most spontaneously creative rhythm sections to come out of Western North Carolina, Asheville locals, Sanders (bassist for Acoustic Syndicate and Donna the Buffalo) and Seawell (drummer for Snake Oil Medicine Show and CX1), created Asheville’s E.Normus Trio.
