Flight, by Alex Sadnik

Flight

by Alex Sadnik

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1.	Donna Lee 04:39	buy track
2.	Parker's Mood 08:17	buy track
3.	Bird of Paraside 06:24	buy track
4.	Yardbird Suite 06:13	buy track
5.	Red Cross 04:54	buy track
6.	Segment/Diverse 05:53	buy track

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Charlie Parker is a figure of permanent fascination, his inestimable contributions to jazz eternally reverberating across space and time. For Alex Sadnik, the choice to reimagine some of Parker’s most beloved standards arose from the desire for the structure of practice sessions without necessarily having a reason for them. On the heels of a global pandemic with no gigs for the foreseeable future, Sadnik found himself in jam sessions instead, reaching for “Ornithology” and realizing he’d forgotten how to play it. Given how important Parker was to Sadnik’s musical growth, both in jazz and as a saxophonist, this seemed like an auspicious opportunity to revisit the man’s music: what if he came out of this really just knowing all these songs again?

In this way, the album faithfully lives up to its name. A sideways reference to the man whose music inspired it all, nodding at the freedom of movement, the biological necessity for birds to travel, soaring through an expanse of sky, using their wings without thinking, simply doing the thing that their bodies have been built to do: drifting, floating, swooping, flying. Flight. - Ana Gavrilovska, Detroit, Michigan

credits

released May 26, 2023

Quintet (Side A)
Jay Bellerose - drums
Dave Easley - pedal steel guitar
Philip Glenn - violin
Alex Sadnik - alto saxophone
Anthony Shadduck - double bass

Quartet (Side B)
Billy Mohler - bass
Tina Raymond - drums
Alex Sadnik - alto saxophone
Kris Tiner - trumpet

Produced and Mixed by Chris Schlarb
at BIG EGO, Long Beach, CA.

Recorded March 5th and 20th, 2022

Engineered by Devin O'Brien

Mastered by JJ Golden @ Golden Mastering, Ventura, CA.

Cover art and layout by David J. Woodruff

Liner notes by Ana Gavrilovska

All songs by Charlie Parker

All arrangements by Alex Sadnik except,

"Donna Lee" arranged by Alex Sadnik and Doug Carter

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