brad muirhead music

creative bass-trombonist & sousaphonist, improvisor, recording artist, composer, interdisciplinary performance artist

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The Brad Muirhead Quartet (BM4)

debut CD “OLD / IN / OUT / NEW

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This recording came together over four casually scheduled sessions in 2016 & 2017, working around everyone's busy schedules. It features Brad's current small band on some of the new material the group is currently performing as well as documenting some older material of his that has never been recorded. Some of it is very experimental, some straight ahead, and the rest somewhere between, hence the circular album title "OLD / IN / OUT / NEW". All of the tunes have been performed by the quartet, but some of them obviously lent themselves to fuller arrangements, so several more of Brad's musical cohorts were brought into the project, including vocals and a trombone section.

credits

The Quartet:

Brad Muirhead - bass trombone
Jared Burrows - guitar
Brent Gubbels - basses
Bernie Arai - drums

Plus:

Jennifer Scott - vocals
Brad Turner - trumpet & Rhodes piano
Rod Murray - trombone
Jim Hopson - trombone
Greg Farrugia - trombone
Brian Harding - trombone
Jack Duncan - percussion

Ella's Song
Brad Muirhead / BM4
I Had Nothing better To Do
Brad Muirhead / BM4+
Fin
Brad Muirhead / BM4+
Dark
Brad Muirhead / BM4
Go Forth
Brad Muirhead / BM4+
Let's Play Make Believe (aka Threnos)
Brad Muirhead* / BM4+ (*lyric assist from Soressa Gardener)
Little Brother
Brad Muirhead / BM4
Warp 7
Brad Muirhead / BM4

 All titles composed and arranged by Brad Muirhead.

Produced by Brad Muirhead
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Brad Turner
Recorded at Presentation House and Capilano University, North Vancouver, BC
cover art - Brad Muirhead
Graphic design - David Bircham

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