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Legendary guitarist Grant Geissman has thrown down the gauntlet that separates the Jazz men from the Smooth Jazz boys. Say That! is a triumph, a collection of thirteen original Grant Geissman compositions that play like a righteous melding of 1960s Wes Montgomery, Horace Silver, and Jimmy Smith. It’s real music that swings, simmers, smolders, and burns. It’s good for the soul, and anything but “smooth”. Featuring the jazz version of the Theme from Two and a Half Men, the hit CBS-TV series (composed by Geissman). Original cover art by beat/low brow artist Miles Thompson! Includes a full color insert with extensive liner notes by noted jazz critic Bill Milkowski, and a bonus facsimile piece of sheet music for “Say That!”The path of emigration is a well-trodden one in the history of the Celtic nations, so it is no surprise that many songs and compositions have been inspired by the subject. Battlefield Band has touched on the subject on past albums. On this album, as they were recording it, the theme of ‘displacement of people’ sort of took over. Battlefield Band have not tried to come up with any answers; just music and song, contemporary and traditional that show the issue of ‘Immigration’ has always been there. The subject of Immigration has inspired much great and moving music and words and highlighted on this album are experiences from Scotland, Ireland, the Americas and Australia, plus a setting by Alan Reid of Robbie Burns popular poem, as well as a couple of bonus songs from previous albums.Think of Chet Baker meets Dead can Dance. Produced by Will Ackerman, Grammy award winning guitarist and founder of Windham Hill Records, Jeff is the only trumpet/flugelhorn artist working in ambient terrain. He draws from a rich background of classically trained, jazz tinged horn study, mixed with contemporary electronica and loop based electro-orchestral bed tracks. As you listen, imagine...

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