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We've Only Just Begun (2019)

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Personnel:

Ashley Pezzotti on vocals
Alex Weitz on tenor saxophone
Emmet Cohen on piano
Bob Bruya on bass
Kyle Poole on drums

Track Listing:

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1. It Only Takes A Moment 

2. We've Only Just Begun 

3. Solo Tú 

4. That Way 

5. I Hope You Find Her 

6. Nothing Good Happens After Midnight 

7. September In The Rain 

8. But Not For Me 

9. Something I Dreamed Last Night 

10. Drunk On Love 

11. Just One Of Those Things 

12. Darn That Dream 

13. Jackie 

Alex Weitz appears on We’ve Only Just Begun (track 1), Solo Tú (track 3), Nothing Good Happens After Midnight (track 6), September In The Rain (track 7), Drunk On Love (track 10), and Jackie (track 13).

We’ve Only Just Begun, Solo Tú, That Way, I Hope You Find Her, Nothing Good Happens After Midnight, and Drunk On Love are original compositions composed by Ashley Pezzotti and Alex Weitz. Lyrics by Ashley Pezzotti.

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The Ever Fonky Lowdown (2020)

“You really just want to be entertained,” says Mr. Game, the sly hustler-narrator played by acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme, Jack Ryan) who presides over Wynton Marsalis’s new masterpiece The Ever Fonky Lowdown. Combining droll commentary with soulful, big band-backed vocals, the Lowdown is definitely entertaining—but it also brilliantly reveals Marsalis’s incisive, panoramic view of modern society.


Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and guest vocals from Camille Thurman, Ashley Pezzotti, Christie Dashiell, and Doug Wamble, the Lowdown is a funky jazz parable for 2020. It covers terrain from football to politics, from power to poverty, from love and romance to betrayal and corruption; it will make you dance and think. The Ever Fonky Lowdown is a horn-fueled survey of the political malaise and cultural decay now plaguing America—and how Marsalis suggests we might be able to rise above the structures that have been holding us back for centuries.

THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS 
2019-20 CONCERT SEASON

REEDS
Sherman Irby
Ted Nash
Victor Goines
†Walter Blanding *Dan Block
Paul Nedzela

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TRUMPETS
Ryan Kisor
Marcus Printup
Kenny Rampton
Wynton Marsalis

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TROMBONES
Vincent Gardner
Chris Crenshaw – trombone and vocals
Elliot Mason

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RHYTHM SECTION
Dan Nimmer – piano
Carlos Henriquez – bass

Jason Marsalis – drums and tambourine

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SPECIAL GUESTS
Wendell Pierce – narrator
Doug Wamble – guitar and vocals
Camille Thurman – vocals
Ashley Pezzotti – vocals
Christie Dashiell – vocals
Ricky “Dirty Red” Gordon – percussion
Bobby Allende – percussion

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ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES FROM

Sam Chess – trombone (track 7)
Adam Birnbaum – piano (tracks 7, 35, 42, 51)
Charles Goold – drums (track 35)

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(†) did not perform at this recording session
(*) substitute orchestra member

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