Write Off Records

05/01/2025

new year, new sounds:

7 track album

23/12/2024

the holiday season is upon us and surely you need some new music to stimulate and share. try this.

Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon , a Jazz album by BILLIE DAVIES on ReverbNation

16/12/2024

publishing, rights and royalties. ASCAP, BMI, SOCAN - seriously.

29/10/2024

Harvie S recording his compositions and playing bass, accompanied by a stellar group is news.
This is one project to look forward to..

Yesterday I made a new recording featuring my compositions and bass playing (and the band of course). Not mixed yet but will keep you Posted.
Peter Berstein on guitar, Matt Wilson drums and Miki Hayama piano , Fender Rhodes and synth (one tune). Recorded at Teaneck Sound by my good friend Dave Kowalski. Very excited about this one.

28/09/2024

"Thinking of Marie Laveau"
voo doo for sure and listen to this track to confirm all your suspicions.

track by BILLIE DAVIES

14/09/2024

Album of the Week, indeed. add this to your collection and put it at the top of the rotation.

🎶 Album of the Week 🎶

Artist: Patricia Brennan
�Album: Breaking Stretch
Label: Pyroclastic Records, 2024
Released: September 2024

Yet another great vibraphone led album for 2024 – this time from visionary composer and player Patricia Brennan. In fact of the recent crop of superb vibes sessions this stands out as the most progressive. Breaking Stretch has Brennan extending the limits of not just her instrument but our preconceptions of how the vibes sit in a “jazz” ensemble.

“I wanted to push the music and the musicians almost to the breaking point,” Brennan explains. “I wrote music that creates the illusion of width and narrowness, either with orchestration techniques or with a play on rhythmic structures.”
Her band includes trumpet player Adam O’Farrill who has his own fine album receiving plenty of love on One Jazz right now and percussionist Mauricio Herrera alongside drummer Marcus Gilmore.

It’s music for head, heart and feet. Vibes.
* Jon Irabagon – alto & sopranino saxophones
* Mark Shim – tenor saxophone
* Marcus Gilmore – drums
* Mauricio Herrera – percussion
* Kim Cass – bass
* Patricia Brennan – vibraphone with electronics, marimba

Buy on Bandcamp:
https://patriciabrennanpyroclastic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-stretch

03/09/2024

one year already. a busy one for Kris Gruda: live performances, NYC, a variety of ensembles. much like this collection. give the music a listen, you will keep listening.

34 track album

04/08/2024

if you are free (and I know you are) check this on your to do list.

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23/07/2024

listening to Billie Davis and her musical expressions are good for you. enjoy this remembrance of Miles Davis and "So What"

BILLIE DAVIES & The Bad BoyzzzzTrack: So What An improvisation on Miles Davis' So What (a most favorite of Billie Davies' older Miles' music) performed at Th...

16/07/2024

Billie Davies, yeah.

10 track album

14/06/2024

Jupiter, tonight. last minute for sure, but this trio sounds great. check out the track, "keyhole darkly"

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02/06/2024

Pink Mercury - improvisational inspiration

All improvised /// I plume they banish Don't take your wings I take advantage I know what you're seeing But i hate it Come here you silly I too guile and go I am already living On an axon code Oh th

15/05/2024

the industry of recorded music and satire. sometimes you just have to listen.

21/04/2024

duet records, vibes and guitar = beauty
try this one for listening pleasure.

3 track album

06/03/2024

Vibraphone, yes. two masters playing the vibe - together, yes. avail yourself of this music, yes.

9 track album

06/02/2024

Horse Lords, "a tapestry outside of time" six years of live music available on vinyl March 1.

23/01/2024

this new year, this Friday, new music from Tyler Blanton "References and Irreverances" on Destiny Records.

New release coming this Friday from 🙌

On References & Irreverances, Blanton’s fourth leader date and his second for Destiny Records, the New York City-based vibraphonist bottles such feelings in a flight of eau de parfum concentrations. His panache for striking the right mood is reflected in quirky titles like Brooding Linda Evans and Person Hole Cover. That said, such descriptors are merely doorways into listeners’ own ways of connecting to the material at hand. The latter tune, for example, despite its nod to an all-too-canny George Carlin bit about the absurdity of our linguistic revisionism (“manhole cover” being no longer politically correct), has little to do with the ex*****on of the concept in musical form. If anything, these vignettes of popular culture and personal experience are like sparks fanned by Blanton’s eminently cognizant bandmates. This is clearest in West Highlands, a nod to his West Highland Terrier that hits the ground running. Pianist Gary Versace takes an early solo in this opener, showcasing his own gift for telling it like it is in a culture that too often curtails that impulse. The rhythm section of bassist Joe Martin and drummer Rudy Royston sinks its teeth deep enough into this groove to reach bone, throwing Blanton’s brilliant interweaving of clean and gritty textures into relief.

18/01/2024

Amarylis Sextet, "Cloudward" Nonesuch Records
Listen and enjoy. Catch them live in a city near you.