For Your Consideration: Greg Spero "Electric"

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For your Grammy consideration
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Electric | Greg Spero
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: Blackbird, Greg Spero
Song of the Year: No Rest for the Weary | Greg Spero & Peter Yastrow
Album of the Year: Electric | Greg Spero
Record of the Year: No Rest for the Weary | Greg Spero & Peter Yastrow

Bass: Junius Paul, Drums: Makaya McCraven, Piano/Synthesizers/Vocals: Greg Spero

Track listing, track times

1. Introduction: Turn It Up 1:21

2. Raga 5:09

3. Up Too Late 5:31

4. Interlude 3 2:08

5. Blackbird 5:58

6. Song 21 5:59

7. Interlude 21 2:02

8. No Rest for the Weary 5:08

9. Interlude 4 1:28

10. Fly 5:29

Bonus:

11. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 5:21

"At first listen of Greg Spero's debut release, Acoustic I wrote that I found it difficult to imagine how he could surpass his first offering to the world of jazz. After listening to Electric, I realized that it's not about "surpassing" oneself in a competitive sense, but rather, more about one's own inner-travel and the attentive harvesting of the experiences.

Greg's highly refined musical statement on this album is but a reflection of his own personal evolution while on a path of restless exploration beyond the mundane. Greg accomplishes this with the very tasteful and imaginative layering of electronic elements juxtaposed with deeply rooted foundational acoustic beds- to create glimpses into multi-dimensional soundscapes. With Electric, Greg invites us on an engaging kaleidoscopic journey that pierces the outer edges of rhythmic, harmonic and melodic possibilities. On this journey we are also fortunate that Greg has wisely chosen to share the pure innocence of his voice in the pristine interpretation of three classic songs.

My only question for his next project will be where will his travels take him next?"

—Robert Irving III, Miles Davis producer/director

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