About Ghosts LP + MP3 Bundle exclusiveAbout Ghosts features eight new compositions by guitarist composer Mary Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis, the improvisatory band featured on her critically praised albums Amaryllis, Belladonna, and Cloudward: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam OFarrill (trumpet). Saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles join the ensemble on five tunes, and Halvorson adds
and Minimalist repetition
"using our voices in ways we hadn't previously explored
charting the making of the album
"We took a simple approach and trimmed all the fat like we used to
" and Duke Ellington's "Satin Doll
expanded edition of the soul-stirring 2005 benefit album Our New Orleans includes five previously unreleased tracks as well as the original performances by Allen Toussaint
"The album demands
more than 30 years later
Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion
Stephen Foster wrote music that drew from both Southern dialects and Northern sensibilities
bassist Christian McBride
it was recorded at the National Concert Hall
