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Three Big Guys + 1

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1.	Three Big 1 02:26	buy track
2.	Three Big 2 03:21	buy track
3.	Three Big 3 05:25	buy track
4.	Three Big 4 03:09	buy track
5.	Three Big 5 04:04	buy track
6.	Three Big 6 03:02	buy track
7.	Three Big 7 04:15	buy track
8.	Three Big 8 04:07	buy track
9.	Three Big 9 03:27	buy track
10.	Three Big 10 01:56	buy track
11.	Three Big 11 05:36	buy track
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Artist: Three Big Guys + 1
Title: Three Big Guys + 1
(Asian Improv Records AIR0078, released January 1, 2009)

“The presence of a Western-chordal instrument here is due to guitarist Jeff Parker. Wong and Aoki join in with him and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee to present a quartet at the other end of the spectrum from Miyumi's ( Live In Poland ) spectacle: like delicate art prints, or haikus, 3 Big Guys +1's 17 short tracks showcase Wong's floating melodic-linear thoughts and the fleeter improvs they inspire, making a scrapbook of riches. Parker's shimmer-ringing sound, while far from Derek Bailey's, does evoke the same floating-free-of tonal matrices or metronomic grooves, even as it dances and darts in and out of them. It effects thus a fitting double duty between Wong's fellow single-line voice (often in unison) and piano-like comp to Kavee's and Aoki's riverbedrock patterns usually roiling at twice the speed or faster than the others.”

- from Michael Heffley’s review at Amazon

credits

released January 1, 2009

Credits:

Jeff Parker/guitar
Francis Wong/horn
Elliot Humberto Kavee/drums
Tatsu Aoki/bass

Inspirational Compositions by Francis Wong on hotel napkins

Original compositions and Improvisations by Three Big Guys plus One
Asian Improv Music Pub. Co. (ASCAP)

Recorded at Sparrow Sound Design and The Big Hut in Oakland, CA long time ago, and Caleb Willitz Studio Chicago, recently

Recording Engineers:
Bradley Parker-Sparrow
Robert Berenson
Caleb Willitz

Executive Producer:
Francis Wong

Managing Producer:
Tatsu Aoki

Cover Design:
Lauren Deutsch

Asian Improv Records, Inc
456 Montgomery St. #1350
San Francisco, CA 94102

C and p 2009 Asian Improv Records, Inc.
All rights reserved
Unauthorized reproduction of this recording is prohibited by federal law and subject to criminal prosecution

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Francis Wong San Francisco, California

For over three decades Francis Wong has performed his innovative brand of Jazz and creative music for audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe. Wong's imaginative career straddles roles as varied as performing artist, youth mentor, composer, artistic director, community activist, non-profit organization manager, consultant, music producer, and academic lecturer. ... more