{"id":186,"date":"2020-02-18T20:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurieantonioli.com\/shop\/product\/the-constant-passage-of-time\/"},"modified":"2021-02-07T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:55:13","slug":"the-constant-passage-of-time","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"http:\/\/www.laurieantonioli.com\/shop\/product\/the-constant-passage-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constant Passage of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n89EmNlRrZc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Laurie Antonioli &#8211; Vocals<br \/>\nMatt Clark &#8211; Piano<br \/>\nDave MacNab &#8211; Guitar<br \/>\nSheldon Brown &#8212; Saxophones, clarinets<br \/>\nJason Lewis &#8211; Drums<br \/>\nDan Feiszli &#8211; Bass<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Laurie Antonioli<br \/>\nRecorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California Feb. 9-11, 2018<br \/>\nRecording Engineer &#8211; Dan Feiszli, El Cerrito, California<br \/>\nMixing Engineer &#8211; Nenad Vasilic, Vienna, Austria<br \/>\nMastering Engineer &#8211; Raphael Jonin, Paris, France<br \/>\nPhotos &#8212; David Geathers<br \/>\nAlbum Art &amp; Design &#8211; John Bishop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4090032904\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=710471383\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/laurieantonioli1.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-constant-passage-of-time\">The Constant Passage of Time by Laurie Antonioli<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4090032904\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=1050475918\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/laurieantonioli1.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-constant-passage-of-time\">The Constant Passage of Time by Laurie Antonioli<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; 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width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4090032904\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=1686622703\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/laurieantonioli1.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-constant-passage-of-time\">The Constant Passage of Time by Laurie Antonioli<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liner Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1886 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laurieantonioli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Laurie-Constant-Passage-of-Time-8075-resized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In recent years Laurie Antonioli has devoted herself \u2014 apart from her two intimate, resplendent duo albums with jazz master pianist Richie Beirach \u2014 to the sound of a working band. Her band, that is. On American Dreams (2010) and Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: The Music of Joni Mitchell (2014), the Bay Area vocalist (and Chair of the Vocal Program at Berkeley\u2019s California Jazz Conservatory) bonded with a tight, accomplished, versatile and deeply compatible cast of players, almost all of whom return here for a third inspired outing, The Constant Passage of Time.<\/p>\n<p>You will hear the actual words The Constant Passage of Time in the lyric to the leadoff track \u201cLonging for You,\u201d bringing a reflective cast to the whole endeavor. \u201cI like the sound of the phrase,\u201d Antonioli muses, \u201cand it captures my philosophical sense of how things that are bigger than us, mostly in nature, continue a steady course, even in light of how ephemeral we all are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A central aspect of this band\u2019s sound is repertoire, and the ability to inhabit, mold and transform it. For Antonioli this practice is deeply rooted: writing lyrics to instrumental jazz tunes&#8230;is something she began very young. At 19 she was invited onto the Jazz Alley bandstand by Joe Henderson himself, to sing her original lyrics to \u201cIsotope\u201d and \u201cInner Urge.\u201d (\u201cIt was quite an experience with Charlie Haden and Joanne Brackeen playing in the band,\u201d she marvels.) This process of seeking out distinctive melodies and recasting them in words, whether on her own initiative or in direct collaboration with great composers, became her life\u2019s pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0The Constant Passage of Time, Antonioli offers an especially arresting and genre-defying slate of songs and makes them her own, through her stirring vocal performances but also in every arrangement, every sonic detail. Of the band\u2019s three albums to date, she remarks that this one was by far the most collaborative. And everyone shines, not least of all Dave MacNab, who maintains an assertive presence with his blend of airy acoustic and rock-tinged electric guitars, soloing and accompanying with facility and taste. Saxophonist\/clarinetist Sheldon Brown and pianist Matt Clark are seasoned and expressively rich, able to fulfill any role at any moment. And while the void left by the late John Shifflett is, of course, unfillable, bassist Dan Feiszli brings a fine tone and tremendous musicality to the gig, honoring his predecessor and proving a fine match for the rock-solid Jason Lewis on drums.<\/p>\n<p>On choosing songs, Antonioli sums up simply: \u201cI just did what I liked.\u201d That explains the natural, unforced quality one hears in \u201cLonging for You,\u201d a lyric written to Russell Ferrante\u2019s Yellowjackets tune \u201cLonging\u201d; or \u201cAnd So It Is,\u201d after \u201cAs Is\u201d by pianist Paul Nagel, from his trio album NLS, featuring what would become Antonioli\u2019s rhythm section; or \u201cLayla,\u201d after \u201cBee\u201d by guitar wizard Nguy\u00ean L\u00ea, reimagined here for just voice and guitar (\u201cLayla\u201d is the singer\u2019s grandchild). These are melodies with a haunting, unusual beauty, with demanding leaps and turns that nonetheless require a relaxed, emotive delivery. Together, too, the songs paint a picture, shining a light on gems by brilliant artists whose work isn\u2019t always widely heralded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1883 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laurieantonioli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Laurie-Constant-Passage-of-Time-8151-resized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoonbirds,\u201d with Brown\u2019s striking clarinet colors, and \u201cHighway,\u201d enigmatic and subtly rock-influenced, are two standouts from a batch of songs Antonioli cowrote with German saxophonist Johannes Enders during her four-year stint as vocal jazz professor at Kunstuniversit\u00e4t (KUG) in Graz, Austria. \u201cSometimes I come up with a back story that\u2019s not mine,\u201d she says of \u201cHighway,\u201d which finds MacNab in superb form on acoustic, framing a story that Antonioli calls \u201cpure fantasy: two people climbing in a car in LA and getting out of town, who knows why. It\u2019s very visual for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band also shakes thing up with material from the rock and pop world, generating another level of intensity on Sheryl Crow\u2019s \u201cRiverwide\u201d and Neil Young\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Let It Bring You Down.\u201d Antonioli notes the Walt Whitman inspiration behind \u201cRiverwide,\u201d which the band changes to 4\/4 (from the original 3\/4), with Lewis overdubbing tabla. The Neil Young song, an ideal closer, is meant as a political protest, however implicit and subtle (in live performance she adds an original verse about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson).<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light, Antonioli revisits Joni Mitchell on two tracks that feature Brown effectively on soprano sax: \u201cLove,\u201d a magisterial ballad derived from biblical verse; and \u201cHarry\u2019s House\u201d (from The Hissing of Summer Lawns) and \u201cThe Arrangement\u201d (from Ladies of the Canyon) set in an intriguing m\u00e9lange. On the evocative lines \u201chigh fashion girls,\u201d \u201cbeauty parlor blondes,\u201d \u201cpaper-minded males\u201d and \u201cpaper wives,\u201d Antonioli overdubs stark harmony vocals that leap out in surprise (perhaps an echo of Chuck Findley\u2019s muted trumpet backgrounds on the original). This vocal layering, a bold sonic element, crops up on \u201cRiverwide\u201d and \u201cMoonbirds\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a band and you can hear the interaction,\u201d says Antonioli of these performances, noting a certain ethos she admires from Bill Frisell\u2019s The Intercontinentals. \u201cThere\u2019s so much weaving in and out. On \u2018Love\u2019 there are all kinds of counterlines and spontaneous melodic variations, \u2018Moonbirds,\u2019 the way everyone was listening and interacting \u2014 all of that stuff is very much our sound, and we do it by design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David R. 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