CARTWRIGHT, GEORGE The Memphis Years
Description
The Memphis Years is the second solo release by composer/saxophonist George Cartwright, best known as the leader of Curlew. The Memphis Years pays tribute to Cartwright’s five-year involvement in Memphis' well known music scene, and features some of that city’s best musicians. Cartwright returns to the collaboration he first employed on Curlew's A Beautiful Western Saddle with noted lyricist Paul Haines [Tropic Appetites, Escalator Over The Hill] and vocalist Amy Denio. Curlew guitarist Davey Williams also appears. The result is a blending of strictly composed songs sung by Denio and composed and semi-improvisational jazz-oriented instrumentals that might be comparable to the certain aspects of the ESP label sound updated. Cartwright fuses these seemingly disparate styles into an eloquently coherent musical experience.
Titles
1. Surprise! Surprise! (4:13)
2. Some Nuance (5:56)
3. The Please Fasten Your Seatbelt Sign (5:26)
4. Sleepers Awake to Singing Snakes (5:10)
5. J'Acuzzi (4:10)
6. Coffee and Pie (10:22)
7. In Serious Veins (6:40)
8. He Who'd Ask (8:45)
9. Clumsy (9:45)
10. Made Idea (10:45)
11. Fluffypie and Warrior (11:45)
12. Zero Street (12:45)
