Wayne Krantz Krantz Carlock Lefebvre

The much awaited studio album from Wayne Krantz after his last release, Good Piranha Bad Piranha (2014) featuring Gabriela Anders, Keith Carlock, Will Lee, Orlando le Fleming, Tim Lefebvre Pino Palladino and Chris Potter.

Wayne Krantz - Greenwich Mean (1999) {Wayne Krantz 005}
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© 1999 Wayne Krantz | 005
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Modern Jazz / Fusion / Guitar

This disc documents improvised segments of shows from one of Wayne's long stands at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village (with Keith Carlock and Tim Lefebvre or Will Lee). Essentially many highlights are sequenced into a near medley over an hour long. Some are fairly short (hence the 24 tracks), a few are full length. As Wayne says in the notes: "Greenwich Mean captures playing from the Summer of 97 through the Spring of 98, with a hundred hours of tape screened for outstanding moments of spontaneity that form a CD." The leadoff track: "Infinity Split" is the bomb and in itself makes this disk essential.

Though Krantz has utilized vocals in his music before - most notably on Krantz Carlock Lefebvre - on Howie 61 Krantz pushes this aspect of his artistry a step further by incorporating vocal content in his music in a manner that is more complete and tightly integrated than anything he has done in the past. “I’m very excited about this record.” says Krantz. “It’s another step in a direction that I’ve been making since Long To Be Loose really; Long To Be Loose was an instrumental version of this record. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get words into my music for the longest time, and it took so much trial and error just to get to the point where I could use just a few words on a song, and have it feel integrated with the music.