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| New Release Showcase - The Hazelrigg Brothers Some things in life are worth waiting for. The Hazelrigg Brothers' debut album, Songs We Like, is one of them. George and Geoff Hazelrigg—pianist and bassist, respectively—have been making music together for most of their lives, but it wasn't until recently that the New Jersey-born siblings were certain that all of the elements they required were in place to cut an album of their own. Songs We Like is the result of the brothers' painstaking work and patience. The album's nine tracks include re-imagined material originally performed by classic rock giants such as Led Zeppelin ("Ten Years Gone" and "What is and What Should Never Be"), the Jimi Hendrix Experience ("If 6 Was 9"), Steely Dan ("King of the World"), Jethro Tull ("Living in the Past") and the Police (Sting's "Spirits in the Material World"), plus one from the '80s Australian band Men at Work ("Catch a Star") and two classical works, Béla Bartók's "Evening in the Country" and "Passacaglia, " by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. For the album, the trio recorded many tunes before deciding on the nine that made the final cut, all of them penned by outside composers. "We are interpreters of music, " says George. "Neither of us feels the need to compose substantial pieces for this idiom. write your comments about the article :: © 2018 Jazz News :: home page |