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Modular Records talks to Innerviewworld.com about
its label and its upcoming projects.
Be sure to go to Modular's website at:
www.modularpeople.com
Adam Hobbs from Modular Records
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Mel Bay Records
recording artist
guitarist, composer
Jonathan has since performed in the groups of Joe Locke, Joel Frahm, Greg Tardy,
Jeff Andrews, Josh Roseman, Roy Nathanson (Jazz Passengers), Donald Edwards,
Jane Monheit, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ari Hoenig, Yosvany Terry and Lenny White, as well
as leading his own groups of various instrumentations. In 1999, his trio (with drummer
Ari Hoenig and bassist Johannes Weidenmueller) performed in Lima, Peru, where they
also gave a clinic at the School of Peruvian Folklore. In early 2000 Jonathan composed
and performed what the New York Times called the "elegant underscoring" for the off-
broadway show Betwixt. In 2001 and 2003 he performed concerts and taught clinics at
Tavira, Portugal's Algarve Em Jazz. In 2002 he completed a tour of Japan and recorded
the CD “Ducktones” with drummer Donald Edwards’ Quintet.
He has composed music and performed with eclectic songsmith/writer/performance artist
David Cale. He cowrote the music and serves as the musical director for the show FLOYD
AND CLEA, which played at the Goodman Theater in Chicago and Hartford Stage. It makes
its New York debut at Playwright's Horizon in late 2006.
Currently promoting his music worldwide with successful tours in Spain, Finland, Portugal,
and Japan, Jonathan is based in NYC. When in town, he can be found at his steady
Wednesday trio gig at La Lanterna and many of NYC's other great jazz venues.
www.JonathanKreisberg.com
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Jonathan Kreisberg
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McCoy
At 17 he began a career-changing relationship with Miles Davis’ sideman saxophonist John
Coltrane. Tyner joined Coltrane for the classic album My Favorite Things (1960), and
remained at the core of what became one of the most seminal groups in jazz history, The
John Coltrane Quartet. The band, which also included drummer Elvin Jones and bassist
Jimmy Garrison, had an extraordinary chemistry, fostered in part by Tyner’s almost familial
relationship with Coltrane.
From 1960 through 1965, Tyner’s name was propelled to international renown,
as he developed a new vocabulary that transcended the piano styles of the
time, providing a unique harmonic underpinning and rhythmic charge essential
to the group's sound. He performed on Coltrane’s classic recordings such as
Live at the Village Vanguard, Impressions and Coltrane’s signature suite,
"A Love Supreme."
Today, Tyner has released nearly 80 albums under his name, earned four Grammys and
was awarded Jazz Master from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. He continues
to leave his mark on generations of improvisers, and yet remains a disarmingly modest
and spiritually directed man.
Go to his website at:
www.mccoytyner.com
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McCoy Tyner
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Editors
Neo-post-punk quartet the Editors formed in 2003. Originally dubbed Snowfield, the group
comprised singer/guitarist Tom Smith, lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz, bassist Russell
Leetch, and drummer Ed Lay, all music technology students at Britain's Stafford University
who relocated to Birmingham after graduation. A series of a well-received club dates and
a single demo tape earned the Editors the interest of British labels large and small, and after
a bidding frenzy the group signed to a revitalized Kitchenware, the venerable British indie
once home to Prefab Sprout. Kitchenware issued their debut single, "Bullets," in early
January 2005 and the record sold out in one day, earning comparison to the dark, dramatic
sound of contemporary bands like Interpol and Bloc Party as well as ancestors like Joy
Division and Echo & the Bunnymen.
of the U.K. music press...
and just weeks after their standout performance at the annual Glastonbury Music Festival,
the band issued its third single, "Blood." Their much-anticipated debut LP, The Back Room,
followed in mid-2005. Munich was reissued in January 2006, placing The Back Room
in the Top Five on the U.K. album chart and earning the band a gold record. A joint North
American tour with stellastarr coincided with the stateside release of The Back Room in
March, and a Mercury Music Prize nomination followed in July. Editors' sophomore effort,
An End Has a Start, came out the following summer, preceded by the single "Smokers
Outside the Hospital Doors".
~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Visit their website at: www.editorsofficial.com 
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Ed Lay
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Benevento
Marco Benevento is a young keyboardist whose jazz-rooted work has
expanded to include indie rock, jam band and experimental post-rock
influences. Born in 1977 and raised in the northern New Jersey town of
Livingston, Benevento studied piano and befriended an aspiring drummer
named Joe Russo in a junior high detention hall. After high school, while
Russo migrated westward to Boulder, Colorado and fell into the hippie jam
band scene there, the more jazz inclined Benevento moved to Boston to
attend the Berklee School of Music, from which he graduated in 1999 after
studying keyboards under noted jazz pianist and instructor Joanne Brackeen.
Following college, Benevento formed a popular Boston-area improvisational
outfit called the Jazz Farmers, which split up when Benevento resettled in
New York City in 2001.
Enjoy our recent interview with Marco >>>
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The
The finest musicians to spring from the world of jazz have clearly had an
advantage when it comes to branching into other genres of music. Their
mastery of composition, arranging, and sight reading coupled with their
flair for improvisation and spontaneous creation make them possibly the
most seasoned and adaptable musicians in the art. Grammy Award winner
Christian McBride, chameleonic virtuoso of the acoustic and electric bass,
stands tall at the top of this clique. Beginning in 1989--the beginning of an
amazing career in which he still has wider-reaching goals to attain - the
Philadelphian has thus far been first-call-requested to accompany literally
hundreds of fine artists, ranging in an impressive array from McCoy Tyner
and Sting to Kathleen Battle and Diana Krall. However, it is his own
recordings--albums that encompass a diverse canon of original
compositions and imaginatively arranged covers--that reveal the totality
of his musicianship.
Take an inner view of our recent film shoot with the band.
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Terreon
Terreon Gully is an exceptional musician whose voice of choice is the
drumset. As a diverse musician, he has mastered a variety of musical
styles: straight ahead, funk, fusion, Afro-Cuban, big band, drum and
bass, rhythm and blues, hip hop, pop and gospel. In addition to drums
Terreon’s musical abilities expand to include writing, producing and
arranging.
Please visit his website at:
www.terreongully.com
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