Emphasizer

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Emphasizer
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Studio album by Garage A Trois
Released April 22, 2003
Recorded Piety Street Recording, New Orleans, Louisiana
Length42:54
Label Tone-Cool
Producer Garage a Trois, Mike Napolitano
Garage A Trois chronology
Mysteryfunk
(1999)		Emphasizer
(2003)		 Outre Mer
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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All About Jazz (not rated) [2] [3]

Emphasizer is the first full length studio album by Garage A Trois released in 2003. [4]

Garage A Trois

Garage A Trois is a quartet including drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik, vibraphone and percussionist Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Benevento. They play a variety of music including rock, funk and jazz.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Hard Headed Rio AKA Rio Cuca Dura" - 4:14
  2. "Sprung Monkey" - 4:39
  3. "Plena for My Grundle" - 3:40
  4. "A-Frame" - 3:56
  5. "We See" - 3:53
  6. "Interpretive Ape Dance" - 6:16
  7. "Launch" - 5:02
  8. "GAT Swamba" - 3:04
  9. "Delta Skelta" - 5:18
  10. "House of Hand Wash" - 2:51

Earlier albums have a different ordering with Gat Swamba on track 1, Sprung Monkey on track 6, and Interpretive Ape Dance on track 8.

Personnel

Mike Dillon (musician) American musician

Mike Dillon is a percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, vocalist and songwriter born in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Garage A Trois. He has performed with many musicians including Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Brave Combo, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Marco Benevento, Claude Coleman Jr., and New Orleans musicians Kevin O'Day, Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton. Dillon also performed in the 80's with local Dallas and Denton favorites Ten Hands.

Charlie Hunter American musician

Charlie Hunter is an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader. First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter plays custom-made seven- and eight-string guitars on which he simultaneously plays bass lines, chords, and melodies. Critic Sean Westergaard described Hunter's technique as "mind-boggling...he's an agile improviser with an ear for great tone, and always has excellent players alongside him in order to make great music, not to show off." Hunter's technique is rooted in the styles of jazz guitarists Joe Pass and Tuck Andress, two of his biggest influences, who blended bass notes with melody in a way that created the illusion of two guitars.

Stanton Moore Jazz-Musician

Stanton Moore is an American funk, jazz, and rock drummer from New Orleans. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity.

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References

  1. ↑ Westergaard, Sean Emphasizer : Review
  2. ↑ Mark Corroto Emphasizer allaboutjazz.com, May 7, 2003
  3. ↑ Nils Jacobson Emphasizer allaboutjazz.com, November 2, 2003
  4. ↑ liner notes
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