Still We Dream Josh Lawrence

• 1 Long As You're Living 03:56
• 2 Still We Dream 05:14
• 3 Op. 29: Impromptu No. 1 06:22
• 4 Boo Boo's Birthday 04:47
• 5 Pure Imagination 04:52
• 6 Evidence 04:59
• 7 Kradoudja 04:33
• 8 Light Blue 05:04
• 9 Op. 36: Impromptu No. 2 06:36
• 10 Trinkle, Tinkle 04:43
• 11 Op. 35: Funeral March from Piano Sonata No. 2 09:59
• 12 America 04:05
• Total Runtime 01:05:10

Info zu Still We Dream

Josh Lawrence bridges Chopin and Monk with style on 'Still We Dream'.

On his seventh release for Posi-Tone, trumpeter Josh Lawrence pushes steadily straight forward with Still We Dream—a bold and lyrical exploration of music by Thelonious Monk and Frédéric Chopin, reimagined through a vibrant, contemporary lens. Joined by a powerhouse band featuring Diego Rivera on tenor sax, Art Hirahara on piano, Boris Kozlov on bass, and Rudy Royston on drums, Lawrence blends deep emotion with sharp intellect to create music that swings with purpose and resonates with heart. From fiery ensemble passages to spacious, introspective moments, Still We Dream is a journey through the past, present, and future of jazz.

Josh Lawrence, trumpet
Diego Rivera, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Art Hirahara, piano
Boris Kozlov, bass
Rudy Royston, drums
Mason Bryant, guitar
Recorded June 23, 2024 at Acoustic Recording, Brooklyn, NY
Engineered by Nick O’Toole
Mixed & mastered at Woodland Studio, Lake Oswego, OR
Produced by Marc Free

Josh Lawrence
is the founder of Color Theory, a jazz ensemble for which he composes works fusing swing, the blues, Afro-Cuban music, and hip-hop. Lawrence uses sound to paint expressionist portraits and landscapes inspired by art, architecture, philosophy, and social observation.

Lawrence's new record Contrast (2018, Posi-Tone) uses both his instrument and his skills as a bandleader to succeed in making another inspired statement exploring several different musical avenues with his Color Theory project. The album features saxophonist Caleb Curtis, pianists Orrin Evans & Zaccai Curtis, bassist Luques Curtis, and drummer Anwar Marshall.

Color Theory’s 2017 debut Posi-Tone Records release led to a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works award for his Lost Works Suite (premiering 2018) inspired by painter and art theorist Vasily Kandinsky's first three compositions which were destroyed during World War II.

Now living in New York, Lawrence studied at the University of the Arts in his hometown Philadelphia. There he co-founded the Fresh Cut Orchestra, an experimental electro-jazz ensemble that won a Pew Center Philadelphia Music Project grant, an American Composers Forum Subito grant, a Kimmel Center Jazz Residency, and released two albums with Ropeadope Records. Lawrence is also the co-founder of oljo creative minds, a NY-based multimedia production company started in partnership with designer/photographer Ola Baldych. Other work includes collaborations with pianist Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band and Tarbaby as well as recordings with saxophonist Caleb Curtis, bassist Jonathan Michel, vocalist Laurin Talese, guitarist Matt Davis' Aerial Photograph , R&B legends Boyz II Men, and the great Erykah Badu.

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