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Finally, after years of playing together, Carmen Caramanica on guitar, Cosmo Castellano on bass and Rick Compton on drums, have released a CD!
Nicely recorded and mixed by Ben Salzman, a long time friend of the trio,it's an inspired mix of collective jazz recorded live in a coffee house setting.
As anyone who has see us perform knows, our trio embraces the idea of collective arranging and improvisation. We know the tunes, the chords and melodies, and from there we jump in and try to create a piece of music that is living and developing NOW, in the moment. Each of us is involved is in creating our own part while interacting with the others, bringing our own personalities together with the trio's collective identity. Whew, that's a mouthful. What makes it a pleasure for us, and interesting for the audience, we hope, is the genuine musical respect and personal affection we have for each other as life-long friends. We communicate what our musical intentions are to each other so instantly sometimes, it's uncanny, especially to us! The audience feels it, too, but some people think we spend many hours rehearsing to get it right. NO. We've played together so much and with so much interaction that sometimes it feels, even to us, like we've "woodshedded" much of this. No, it's just the way we play "on the fly." We listen to each other and react to the music.
It's great fun for us, and I know a lot of you have come to our gigs time after time to see that aspect of our music. It's not just about one musician soloing over a background of chord changes. As wonderful as that can be this is more about three good friends making a new piece of music every time we play together. We're thrilled that our friend Ben was able to get a recorded snapshot of our music. We're glad to finally be able to bring some of it to those who have been asking for years, "Where's your CD."
Well, here it is. We hope you enjoy it!