New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Blue Pie Records) Dave Sharp And The Secret
Seven Featured On New Online Journal INTELLECTUAL REFUGEDave Sharp and the Secret
Seven featured on new online journal INTELLECTUAL REFUGE. The full score and sound clip of LOOTMAR from the Blue Pie full length release "7" will be featured on INTELLECTUAL REFUGE online journal out of Los Angeles, CA this Friday
September 23, 2011. Dave Sharp is honoured to be featured on this online journal of writers, artists and musicians from around the world. https://www.intellectualrefuge.com/
Intellectual Refuge is an online journal of quality original writing founded by
Christopher Schnieders. Every Friday morning, IR publishes one new work in a collective attempt to cyber-embrace readers, raise old whiskey glasses and provide interventions if need be. The new pieces are fiction and essays over 1500 words, although surprises appear on rare Fridays. Those surprises can be music scores, photo essays and interviews. IR's online readership includes visitors from over 55 countries.
ABOUT THE FEATURED SONG 'LOOTMAR (WIND SONG)' By Dave Sharp & Chris Kaercher
LOOTMAR (WIND SONG) was written during one of the many writing sessions that Chris & I had in preparation for the recording of the Secret
Seven CD "7." We had Indian music in mind when we put together the main melody, as well as the image of the sun setting over the landscape somewhere in India. We started with the bass line, which drones against the open D string, and Chris added his expansive tenor saxophone melody over the chord changes. When I listen to the recording now, I dig the atmospheric work of Dale Grisa on Hammond B3 organ at the introduction and throughout the tune, and the solid percussion work of John Churchville on Tabla. The finale of LOOTMAR contains a "round" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_(music), the same melody played by two different voices, but starting at different times. The rich stylings of Ross Huff (from the Macpodz) is featured on this recording harmonizing the main melody, and he plays the second voice of the "round" melody on Flugelhorn during this section. Why the title LOOTMAR (WIND SONG)? LOOTMAAR is a Hindi movie from 1980, and my friend
Scotty played the soundtrack for me back in the day, while driving around Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles. This started what is now a 20 year listening spree and appreciation for Indian music. WIND SONG? I give my son Elvin credit for that, as he was three years old when he first heard it, and thought the introduction sounded like a wind song.
-Dave Sharp
Dave Sharp's Secret
Seven is "World Jazz for the Jazz World". With the new full length CD "7" charting for national radio airplay in the CMJ top 30, Secret
Seven transcends musical, national, and ethnic boundaries by re-interpreting, not fusing, influences from Africa, Asia, the Latin world, Blue Note Jazz, and that other planet, New Orleans. Secret
Seven features Dave Sharp on electric & double bass, leading a steady groove and laying the foundation for the band's irresistible melodies. Native Detroiter Sharp became devoted to Jazz at the University of Michigan and refined his chops under the tutelage of renowned bassist Herbie Lewis (McCoy Tyner, Cannonball Adderly, Les McCann) in San Francisco, and virtuoso bassist, composer and bandleader Marion Hayden (Straight Ahead) in Detroit. As bassist and composer for the modern jazz ensemble Spheres of Influence, and touring bassist for the seminal rock band The Melvins (Atlantic Records), Sharp has already made a mark on the national scene. Sharp lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he composes, records, teaches and performs.
