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MEMBERS OF THE ACE COLLECTIVE:

Jorge Sylvester: Bandleader/Founder, Alto-Saxophone, Compositions, Arrangements

Nora McCarthy - Voice, Compositions, Lyrics, Poetry
Waldron Mahdi Ricks - trumpet
Pablo Vergara - Piano
Donald Nicks - electric bass
Kenny Grohowski - drums

Dbl CD, Recorded in Austria 12/2010

“Trying to hear this music in terms of metrical beats would be like traveling along Arizona’s magnificent Red Rock Scenic Road and only counting the mile markers rather than taking in the breathtaking scenery.”

Jorge Sylvester ACE Collective is “an all-star jazz band that knows how to swing, to improvise with spontaneity and poise, and to respond to one another with telepathic immediacy and profound respect.

Their new double CD release Spirit Driven, is the result of a lifetime of spirit driven preparation by each musician – Jorge Sylvester: brilliant composer and arranger, virtuoso alto saxophonist; Nora McCarthy: daringly original, versatile, and fearlessly honest singer, composer, and poet; Waldron Mahdi Ricks: impeccably artful trumpet player, a jazz master in his own right; Pablo Vergara: astoundingly imaginative pianist, musically fluent on an encyclopedic, global scale; Donald Nicks: journeyman artisan of the bass, unfailingly, and always tastefully, providing the musical foundation; Kenny Grohowski: uncannily precise and inventive drummer and percussionist…”

Dedicated to the people of Haiti, Spirit Driven is a highly rhythmic and spiritually motivated compositional journey through the various cultures that make up the Caribbean Islands encompassing their significance and contribution to the present day advanced musical concepts in jazz and avant-garde/free music. It uses the “word” in the form of poetry and lyrics to convey each song’s spiritual and historical message. “The music continuously flows and develops with a lithe bodily grace and expressive range, transfiguring its structural complexity and technical virtuosity into an intimate and honest gesture of oneness with each listener, only possible by virtue of consummate musicianship.” (All quoted material by: Ramsey Ameen, 2012)

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released May 11, 2018

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MIC ART PRODUCTIONS New York, New York

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McCarthy is a composer, poet, lyricist, astute improviser, recording artist, bandleader, producer, educator and member of the advanced New York Jazz & Downtown Music Scene. ... more

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