Jeff Newell

Jeff Newell's New-Trad Octet: Brownstone

by Seamus Seoighe
July 16, 2007

Brownstone, a type of sandstone that evokes the upper class urban town homes constructed at the turn of the 20th century, is also used to introduce the theme of Jeff Newell's latest release with his New-Trad Octet. An assimilation of marches and hymns dating from after the Civil War up to the early 1900s, “New in this case refers to more than just a play on the artist's last name. Pulling the John Philips Sousa classics “Stars and Stripes Forever ...