Spectrum
Bobby Jasinski ft. The Hot Lanes
Released January 4, 2020
2021 Wammie Best Jazz Album Award Winner
YouTube:
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About:
Leader of The Hot Lanes, Bobby Jasinski started playing piano at age 5. A composer, film scorer, conductor and arranger, Bobby currently studies composition and arrangement with two-time Grammy award winning musician and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra member, Ted Nash. Bobby currently is a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in Manhattan. In the Washington D.C. area, Bobby has appeared at the Kennedy Center (including the Roof Terrace Restaurant Sunday brunch for over two and a half years), Twins Jazz, HR-57, the Swedish and French embassies, the World Bank, National Press Club and Strathmore. Outside the area, Bobby has had the honor of performing and having masterclasses with Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Roy Hargrove, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, George Robert and Cyrus Chestnut. Further, Bobby has made appearances at Bernie’s Jazz Cafe and Bennetts Lane in Australia, Ronnie’s Scott in London, Harlem Jazz Club in Barcelona and Gregory’s Jazz Cafe in Rome.
Bobby has three albums on iTunes and CDBaby: “A Speck in Time”, a collection of original tunes that were arranged by the Williamsburg Symphonia for a formal January 2015 performance, “Retrospection”, Bobby’s sophomore album which features a complete set of originals for septet and vocals and his latest album, “Spectrum”, which features The Hot Lanes and his big band compositions. “Spectrum” won a 2021 Washington-area Grammy (Wammie) for Best Jazz Album and Bobby took home the 2021 Wammie honors of Best Jazz Artist.
Spectrum, Bobby Jasinski’s third album, and first foray into big band composition, features movements based on the colors of the rainbow. Rainbows often appear in mythology, history and the arts. Greek scholar, Aristotle, is the first to devote serious attention to this beautiful phenomenon. Later, Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated that white light was composed of the light of all the colors of the rainbow. Rainbows often appear in mythology, history and the arts – from the Irish leprechaun’s secret hiding place for his pot of gold, to a symbolic representation of post-apartheid South Africa as the “rainbow nation”, to the Apple computer logo, and to LGBT social movements.
Track Listing:
1. Roy G Biv 5:55
2. Red 6:01
3. Orange 5:56
4. Yellow 3:56
5. Green 5:26
6. Blue 4:28
7. Indigo 6:24
8. Violet 10:55
9. Eclipse 4:02
10. Meandering 5:11
11. The Dreamer 5:54
Personnel:
Bobby Jasinski: piano
The Hot Lanes
Andrew Frankhouse: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Howard McCullers: alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
Tom Andersen: tenor saxophone, flute
Dan Hurlow: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jim Vedda: baritone saxohpone, flute
Rob Skanse: trombone
Paul Hamilton: trombone
Kalrissian Cooper: trombone
Steve Shin: bass trombone
Joe Donegan: trumpet
John Ehlers: trumpet
Arsen Sumbatyan: trumpet
Dan Bocknek: trumpet
Paul Henry: double bass Sam Carolla: drums
