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: Artist......: Sharon Minemoto
: Album.......: Dark Night, Bright Stars :
: Label.......: Cellar Music .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Jazz :
Catnr.......: CMR020923 .
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; Rip.date....: 2023-11-01
Str.date....: 2023-08-11
Quality.....: 264kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
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1. As Luck Would Have It 7:17
2. Alexandra (for Natasha) 5:05
3. Letters From The Midwest 6:28
4. Bike Path (for Dean) 5:28
5. Dark Night, Bright Stars 7:09
6. Color Contrast 6:46
7. The Scenic Route 5:09
8. Supermoon 7:40
9. For Bob Murphy 1:59
10. House From The Dream 4:39
11. Good Hearts 6:50
12. Changes 6:56
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,: Dark Night, Bright Stars is the follow up to my quartet s first :,
: release, Safe Travels, which was dedicated to my late husband, :
:' jazz saxophonist and pianist, Ross Taggart. The past 7 years ':
,: have presented some much needed highs and a few more lows. I m :,
: learning to remind myself that the highs would be less :
:' significant without the lows. The quartet enjoyed some touring, ':
,: followed by the stark contrast of playing a handful of :,
: livestream shows during Covid-19 at empty venues save for the :
:' musicians and crew. I revisited sorrow with the loss of some ':
,: dear friends over the past few years, but came out the other :,
: side from having the joy of socially distanced visits with a few :
:' friends. Seeing them after so long felt like a tonic for ':
,: sadness and worry of those days. My partner Dean received a :,
: cancer diagnosis, and in spite of that, we took a memorable :
:' holiday to France and continue to look forward to more ':
,: traveling. We carry on, trying to get faster at seeking out the :,
: positives during hard times, sometimes realizing what is :
:' actually hard, and what things don t deserve the attention ':
,: they re given. :,
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:' All of this is good inspiration to write music. My quartet has ':
,: been playing some of these tunes occasionally over the past few :,
: years and happily, more often over the past 9 months. The people :
:' I make this music with are the people I learned to play this ':
,: genre of music with when we were college students in the 90s. It :,
: seems that I may have managed to commit these three musicians to :
:' a life-sentence with me...at least I hope so. If I had to be in ':
,: jail, these are the people I would want to be locked up with :,
: because I know they would join forces to find a way to our :
:' freedom. The freedom I have in composing with these musicians ':
,: sounds playing around in my ears is limitless. Their creativity :,
: and dedication to keep the tunes feeling fresh and improve upon :
:' our last performance inspires me every time. I hope you too ':
,: will be able to enjoy this leg of the journey we are on. :,
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