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Mosaic is an ensemble/collective dedicated to forging an original voice in Jazz. Together they perform an eclectic range of styles to create a music that's unique and experimental yet remains accessible. Expanding on the traditions of post Bop, Afro-Cuba, electric Jazz and the avant-garde, their rhythmic and harmonic approach is deep and diverse. Whether playing their own works, or those of the great composers of Jazz, they aim to provide a music for the body and the mind. With an instrumentation of keyboards, bass, drum set, and a wide array of woodwind instruments and percussion,Mosaic hopes to put their own stamp on the American legacy known as Jazz.
Matt Belzer (sax): Multi-instrumentalist/composer Matt Belzer is the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In addition to Mosaic, he is a member of the improvisational drum and sax duo Tiemann-Belzer and the classic jazz group the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble. His performances and compositions have been honored by the Maryland State Arts Council, Downbeat Magazine, the Jazz Composers Alliance. He is listed in the 2009 Marquis “Who`s Who in America.” His music is published by Advance Music and UNC Jazz Press.
Ned Judy (keys/piano):Ned has performed with numerous jazz and popular music artists including Eva Cassidy, the Shirelles, Little Anthony, the Rivingtons,and Michael Henderson. Served as musical director at the Second City Theatre in Los Angeles and has been an improvisational pianist, composer, and sound designer for theatrical productions in the United States,the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. Currently an Associate Professor of Music at Prince George’s Community College and preparatory jazz piano instructor at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore.
Larry Melton (upright bass): Larry Melton one of the most in demand bass players in the Washington/Baltimore area. Fluent on both upright and electric bass he has been involved in situations ranging from straight ahead jazz and Latin to rock and fusion. He was a founding member of the fusion band Permanent Vacation and is currently active with Mambo Combo and the Jarflys. Larry has also worked with Rob Levit, Charles Wright, Peter Fraize and drummer Greg Phillips. Currently Larry takes frequent trips to Europe to accompany violinist Dan Cassidy (brother of world renowned vocalist Eva Cassidy). Larry is also an avid photographer and produces recording projects at his own Snack Studios.
Mark Merella (drums/percussion: Mark is a versatile percussionist adept at both drum set and hand percussion. He has worked with a variety of artists in the Jazz and Latin fields including Paul Carr, Rene McLean, Steve Turre, Ray Vega and percussionist Steve Berrios co-founder of the Fort Apache Band. Mark has also worked with the groups Rumba Club, Afro-Bop Alliance and as part of Duende Quartet he toured Turkey, Cyprus and Eastern Europe as part of Jazz At Lincoln Center's "Rhythm Road" project. As a freelance musician Mark has played at many embassies, the White House and the Kennedy Center and also appears in the critically acclaimed film "Syriana".
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Mosaic: Subterranea
by Roger Farbey
Mosaic is led by Royal Academy of Music jazz graduate Ralph Wyld's whose debut album for Edition Records augurs well for this London-based musician. Opening with “White Horses," this track holds the key to Wyld's imaginative compositions; starting slowly, the initial use of horns and arco strings for tonal colour is deceptive as the mood rapidly builds with the deployment of feisty vibraphone and drums. The light and shade of the piece is evinced by swathes of alternating crescendo and ...
read moreMosaic Sextet: Mosaic Sextet
by Glenn Astarita
No doubt, the folks at “GM Recordings” have done a great service for modern jazz aficionados by reissuing one previously hard to find German import CD and another CD featuring previously unreleased material by a true cutting edge, band known as “The Mosaic Sextet”.
Fans of trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas, violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens should have something to get all worked up about, with this smartly packaged 2-CD set! Recorded between 1988-1990, this ensemble ...
read moreMosaic: Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If jazz musicians were among the most beautiful creative “flowers" ever produced by America, then heroin can be likened to a fungus that destroyed a large number of them. Today, it's hard to figure how so much heroin was able to enter the United States after World War II and why its import wasn't stopped more aggressively by the FBI. Heroin has a long history that dates back centuries. In the U.S., the drug was legal and marketed by the ...
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Joe Henderson: Mosaic Box
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the 1960s, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson recorded on close to 30 Blue Note albums, only five of which were under his name. But most of those sideman sessions were just as significant, since Henderson was a powerful ingredient on anyone's recording date. For example, he is a dominant soloist on Kenny Dorham's Una Mas, Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder, Horace Silver's Song for My Father, Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner and others. What made Henderson special was his dry tone and ...
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The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Studio Sessions Now Available on Mosaic Records
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All About Jazz
When you get your copy of Mosaic’s new five-CD collector’s set, The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Studio Sessions, you’ll be holding a master key to unlocking 1960s jazz. That’s a big statement. But when you consider how much was happening from 1963 to 1966, the years covered by this collection, and contemplate how many different looks he provided through that time period, you can’t ignore his significance as a saxophonist and as someone central to the music’s development. In ...
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Multi-Saxophonist / Composer Rahsaan Barber Presents Expansive Musical Vision On 'Mosaic,' Due April 9 From Jazz Music City Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
As gifted a composer as he is an instrumentalist, tenor/alto/baritone saxophonist Rahsaan Barber offers a panoply of his scintillating originals on Jazz Music City’s April 9 release Mosaic. The double album features Barber working with two separate frontline partners—his twin brother Roland Barber on trombone, Nathan Warner on trumpet, and the rhythm section of pianist Matt Endahl, bassist Jack Aylor, and drummer Derrek Phillips—as he explores 15 of his straight-ahead jazz compositions. Double-disc recordings are often associated with sprawl and ...
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Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining from Equinox Publishing
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All About Jazz
Mosaics is the first biography of bassist, band-leader, composer, educator and author Graham Collier. Duncan Heining draws extensively on Collier’s personal archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life and, particularly, in relation to developments in British and European jazz of the 1960s and '70s. Collier’s work as a composer-bandleader represented an attempt ...
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Mosaic: Lester Young, Again
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in 2009, Mosaic Records issued Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young With Count Basie (1936-1940) , a 4-CD boxed set covering four years. When the limited number of boxes pressed sold out, the Young cupboard was bare. Time passed, and now Mosaic has issued a much deeper and broader set of Young: Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie and Lester Young Studio Sessions, an 8-CD box covering nine years. What's the difference? The official explanation is a bit of a ...
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Jann Klose Releases New Album, Mosaic On iTunes, June 25
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Anne Leighton
Singer Songwriter Praised and Pranked from TIME'S Joel Stein, WFUV's Vin Scelsa and Boston Music Critic Jim Sullivan On the eve of the release of Jann Klose's album, MOSAIC on iTunes and Amazon (June 25), people are coming out of the woodwork with truly unique support for this multi-cultural singer-songwriter and his music. In his June 24th column, TIME MAGAZINE's Joel Stein writes of his paying intern for Joel's Charitybuzz auction (Eric Poses, Inventor of Loaded Questions) pretending to be ...
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Mosaic Records Celebrates the John Coltrane Quartet - "The Complete Sun Ship Session" Released for the First Time
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DL Media
Mosaic Records is set to release The Complete Sun Ship Session which includes newly discovered and previously unissued alternate takes from one of the final studio sessions by the John Coltrane Quartet. The three LP set will be released May 21 and is also being made available on a two CD set through Verve Records on April 16. Sun Ship, recorded August 26, 1965, captures one of the last sessions by the Classic John Coltrane Quartet (Coltrane, pianist McCoy Tyner, ...
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Mosaic Records Limited Edition Box Set: Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947
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All About Jazz
“Almost all of the recordings Hawkins made throughout a 45 year period were outstanding examples of improvisation, but among them were masterpieces by which all jazz tenor saxophone solos will forever be judged.” —John Chilton, The Song Of The Hawk Limited Edition: 5,000 copies 8 CDs - $136.00 The Coleman Hawkins Set You’ve Been Waiting For The saxophone was patented more than a half century before jazz developed but their affinity for each other might be nearly perfect. ...
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Gerry Mulligan: Mosaic Select
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Gerry Mulligan is easily one of jazz's most underrated artists and composer-arrangers. The word “underrated" may seem strange when applied to an established monster like Mulligan, but think about it: Here's a guy who arranged for Gene Krupa, Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis and Elliot Lawrence before heading West in 1952 and starting the piano-less quartet with Chet Baker. Then came his ambitious tentet followed by his swinging sextet with Bob Brookmeyer and Zoot Sims—all while arranging for Stand Kenton and ...
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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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