Joey Goldstein & Friends ... A Strange Little
Tune
(J. M. Goldstein JG-002) Available on CD Only
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$15.00 US (US funds only please) to the following address:
Joey Goldstein
382 Whitmore Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6E 2N4
CANADA
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$20.00 US and I'll send it via airmail.
(Sorry but no airmail arders via PayPal are possible at this
time.)
or use the Contact
link to email me. (you must change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to "." to use this
email address) Joey Goldstein - electric guitar Doug
Riley and Boko
Suzuki- piano & keyboards Vito
Rezza (1993 Juno Award Nominee) and Mark
Kelso - drums Michael
Farquharson (1993 Juno Award Nominee) - electric bass Rob
Bonisolo - tenor saxophone
"A Strange Little Tune" (JG-002) contains 12
original instrumental compositions (totalling almost 75 minutes of
music) from Canadian jazz guitarist/composer Joey Goldstein
and features some great performances by some of Canada's best jazz
musicians.
Stylistically the music covers a broad range, from relatively
straight ahead swing tunes and beautiful ballads, to more aggressive
and innovative poly-rhythmic / polytonal pieces, while always
maintaining that "edge" that typifies the best in contemporary
jazz.
Note: Track 1 and tracks 9 thru 12 were originally
released as part of a 1988 cassette-only album entitled "The Joey
Goldstein Band -Time's Square". (Digitally mixed and mastered, of
course.)
I now have a
page at Soundclick with the entire CD posted in streaming .mp3
format. You can listen to it all from there before ordering it here.
I have also have the tunes from my 1988 cassette release posted
there.
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I have another
page at Sounclick with samples of some of my other playing.
I also recently put up 2 Sounclick pages with the tracks from
Freeflight's 1st
and 2nd
CDs.
You might also find some other audio clips with me playing at the
following Web sites belonging to, or dedicated to: Darcy Hepner, Michael
Farquharson and John
MacMurchy. Reviews:
"... juicy, biting guitar work ... an eclectic session that
gives a jolt ... compelling rhythms and muscular grooves ... sets
this band apart." Geoff Chapman - Toronto Star (Nov. 6/93)
"... John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Bill Conners and Scott
Henderson wrote this script and Goldstein remains forever faithful
... Goldstein hits the mark first time out." The Jazz Report
(Winter 93/94 issue)
"... If you're a fan of Al Dimeola, Chick Corea, or Pat Metheny
then you're probably a fan of Joey Goldstein and you just don't know
it yet." Lance Chilton - City TV/Much Music
I released this CD myself in 1993. I spent quite a lot of time,
money and effort back then to promote this album. I had a handful of
offers from some established jazz record labels at the time but I
decided to take a pass, with the expectation that I could do as good
a job as they would at promoting and marketing this particular
project. I was only partly right.
I was getting a fair bit of airplay all across North America and
had some very good reviews in several publications. I took out a few
ads in The Jazz Report and elsewhere once I thought I had the CD
placed in stores across Canada. But it turns out that it was only
sitting in the warehouses of both Sam's and HMV. By the time I
actually got it in the stores the buzz had died down and consequently
I sold very few units at the retail level.
Sometime in late 1994 I pretty much gave up trying to market the
CD or myself as a leader/recording artist. It was simply much too
much work. I was spending WAY more on my activities as a recording
artist than I was getting back. So, I've been concentrating on
teaching and on performing and recording as a sideman with other
artists (Freeflight, Dave Hutchison, Darcy Hepner, Michael
Farquharson, Anthony Panacci, John MacMurchy etc.).
I DO plan on releasing another CD and doing some
gigs as a leader in the future but I can't say exactly when that
will be.
© 1998 J. M. Goldstein