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Mark Wade Trio: Moving Day (Mark Wade Music, 2018)

Tim Harrison: piano; Mark Wade: bass; Scott Neumann: drums.

Bassist Mark Wade, who has been a part of the New York scene for the better part of two decades, made a significant statement with Event Horizon in 2015 featuring his trio of pianist Tim Harrison and drummer Scott Neumann. What the debut album showed was Wade as a remarkable composer, and a resourceful soloist with plenty of technique but always using it the context of a music with two sympathetic dance partners. Moving Day is the trio's long awaited follow up which expands on and adds to their strengths while also exploring some slightly different terrain.

An aspect of the new album that leaps out at the listener is it's use of odd meters. Unlike the music of the astonishing Hiromi Uehara for example when you know straight away the music is in an odd meter, Wade has a subtle, organic way of approaching time signatures that sounds completely natural. Take the title cut as an example, the 6/4 meter introduces a piano figure and first notes of a bass melody that sounds eerily similar to drummer Antonio Sanchez's title track of New Life (Cam Jazz, 2013).This similarity sets the stage for a theme that hints at the anxiety and exhilaration of moving, a concept the album conveys through nine cuts. Indeed, Wade confirmed inspiration in Sanchez' track, the bassist, Harrison and Neumann investigate a variety of moods through the funky backbeat of the theme, and thoughtful solos. Wade's rhapsodic turn brings to mind Ben Williams and European bassists like Arild Andersen and Michel Benita. Neumann gets a chance to flex his muscles over a vamp with a series of carefully curated ideas. The next track, “Wide Open” is in a 7/4 meter, featuring Harrison springing forth with a wellspring of ideas in his improvisation while Wade mans an unwavering foundation, again focusing on captivating melodic choices during his solo. The band also takes a slick look at Dizzy Gillespie's “A Night In Tunisia”, giving a fresh spin on “Another Night in Tunisia” and utterly transforming the dog eared “Autumn Leaves” into something spectacular by infusing it with the suspended chords of Herbie Hancock's “Maiden Voyage”. Wade's gifts as a writer are again showcased on the wistful “Something Of A Romance” a cinematic ballad vividly illustrating the joy of a deep relationship, the sadness of parting, and the gorgeous waltz,“The Bells”.

Moving Day is another scintillating chapter added to the Mark Wade Trio's oeuvre. The Mark Wade Trio proves once more over the course of nine tunes that it is a special entity, and in the crowded landscape of New York jazz that it deserves to be in the upper pantheon of the scene with striking writing, and a trio that embodies the qualities of subtlety, inner dialogue and oneness.

Rating: 9/10

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Directly from New York City, Mark Wade’s debut solo album, Event Horizon, has been the first and successful step to international fame, and it gained the unanimous approval of critics and audience. As a jazz musician with a launched career in classical music and clearly as a composer, Wade has proved to be one of the most distinctive voices as regards the transversal communication between seemingly distant musical universes. - See more at: http://bassmyfever.weebly.com/interview-with-mark-wade.html#ABOUT

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We have to say, we have not been this excited for a young team since the Young Avengers, back in 2013, which took the world by storm, comprised of Wiccan, Hulkling, Kate "Hawkeye” Bishop, Kid Loki, Marvel Boy and Ms. America. > ....What about Prodigy though?

Wow! Talk about embarrassing.

Sorry, Frostbite883! You are so absolutely positively correct… we might as well slap ourselves.

While reporting the conception of the All-New All-Different Champions, we forgot to include Prodigy in the Young Avengers line-up!

SOURCE STORY: Seems like we have a NEW SQUAD ALERT! JULY 16TH, 2016

If you are wondering who Prodigy is, well, fear not!

Prodigy (David Alleyne), “was originally a mutant with the ability to absorb the knowledge and skills of anyone within a limited distance. He could not control this ability and would forget his acquired knowledge once they became out of range. He attends the Xavier Institute and becomes co-leader of the New Mutants training squad. After the events of House of M and the ensuing “Decimation” of mutants, David loses his powers, but he remains at the Institute, becoming a member of the New X-Men team and utilizing his natural intellect to assist his teammates. He later regains all the knowledge and skills he had absorbed before becoming depowered, including many of the X-Men’s considerable expertise in science and physical combat, making him a stronger addition to the X-Men. Despite being human, he remains with the X-Men as a substitute instructor and trainee over a number of years.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(David_Alleyne)

A fun fact about Prodigy (left) is that he came out as bisexual during the 2013 run of Young Avengers!

Did you enjoy the Young Avengers team as much as frostbite883 and I did? Let us know!

There have been times in the last decade when it seemed as if there was a network of factories churning out identikit piano trios....

Full article here: https://blueblueneonglow.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/mark-wade-trio-event-horizon-the-modern-piano-trio/

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Episode 82-Mark Wade: Vent Haven 2015 Preview

Vent Haven Executive Director Mark Wade appears to give his annual update on the ConVENTion. Included: Corrected times for the Jeff Dunham Lecture and what exactly happened with the hotels this year. If you have any lingering questions about Vent Haven, take a listen! We are a week away from the most exciting eVENT of the year!!

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