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    Jorge Sylvester ACE Collective

    Jorge Sylvester ● alto saxophone
    Nora McCarthy ● voice
    Waldron Mahdi Ricks ● trumpet
    Pablo Vergara ● piano
    Donald Nicks ● electric bass
    Kenny Grohowski ● drums

    The ACE Collective ● background voices

    Dedicated To:
    My Mother, Muriel “Paulina” Sylvester
    and The People of Haiti

    Produced By:
    Jorge Sylvester and Nora McCarthy

    Compositions & Arrangements:
    Jorge Sylvester except #4 CD 1 and #2 CD 2
    All Poetry/Lyrics: Nora McCarthy

    Recorded: 2010 in Linz, Austria
    Mixing Engineer - Engineer: David Stoller
    The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio
    Brooklyn, NY 11238

    Mastering Engineer: Steve Vavagiakis
    Bang Zoom Productions, Blauvelt, NY

    Original Compositions Publishing:
    Lizoka Music © 2012 – RedZen Music Publishing © 2012 All Rights Reserved

    CD Art Design By: Nora McCarthy



    Jorge Sylvester ACE Collective is “an all-star jazz band that knows how to swing, to improvise with spontaneity and poise, and to respond to one another with telepathic immediacy and profound respect.


    Their new double CD release Spirit Driven, on foUR Record (2013,) is the result of a lifetime of spirit driven preparation by each musician – Jorge Sylvester: brilliant composer and arranger, virtuoso alto saxophonist; Nora McCarthy: daringly original, versatile, and fearlessly honest singer, composer, and poet; Waldron Mahdi Ricks: impeccably artful trumpet player, a jazz master in his own right; Pablo Vergara: astoundingly imaginative pianist, musically fluent on an encyclopedic, global scale; Donald Nicks: journeyman artisan of the bass, unfailingly, and always tastefully, providing the musical foundation; Kenny Grohowski: uncannily precise and inventive drummer and percussionist.”


    Dedicated to the people of Haiti, Spirit Driven is a highly rhythmic and spiritually motivated compositional journey through the various cultures that make up the Caribbean Islands encompassing their significance and contribution to the present day advanced musical concepts in jazz and avant-garde/free music. It uses the “word” in the form of poetry and lyrics to convey each song’s spiritual and historical message.


    “The music continuously flows and develops with a lithe bodily grace and expressive range, transfiguring its structural complexity and technical virtuosity into an intimate and honest gesture of oneness with each listener, only possible by virtue of consummate musicianship.” (All quoted material by: Ramsey Ameen, 2012)

    JORGE SYLVESTER PERSONAL WEBSITE:
    www.jorgesylvesteracemusic.com

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Composed and Arranged by: Jorge Sylvester
Poetry: Nora McCarthy

This piece traces the historic path and explores the folkloric music of the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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JorgeSylvesterMusic Brooklyn, New York

"Jorge Sylvester's distinctive alto saxophone sound is imbued with the volatility of Caribbean basin's complex mosaic, transformed and focused by the probing musical linguistics pioneered by the great saxophonists of modern jazz. Jorge's composer's imagination is the matchless structural coherence of his improvisational work".

Violinist, Composer Ramsey Ameen, 12/2005
Tribes Magazine
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