Ghosts
The Craig Pedersen Quartet
Released 16 April 2015
featuring:
Craig Pedersen, trumpet
Linsey Wellman, alto saxophone
Joel Kerr, double bass
Eric Thibodeau, drums
The Craig Pedersen Quartet’s third release, Ghosts, is a contemplative work, exploring themes of darkness, suffering and the pleasure of ensuing release. Coming in at just under 18-minutes, the album is musically concentrated. Like running with weights, the musicians are squeezed to their limits, forced to express within tight constraints. The results are uncontrolled saxophone wails, soaring bass melodies, and explosive drumming all reigned in by Pedersen’s haunting trumpet playing and compositions. This is music that shows that from here, we need not answer to our suffering, but see that it has stood in front of something all along.
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Other People’s Art
Pedersen/Broscoe/Molnar/Warren
Released 15 November 2013
featuring:
Craig Pedersen, trumpet, piccolo trumpet, slide trumpet and composition
David Broscoe, alto and baritone saxophones.
Mark Molnar, cello
Scott Warren, drums
Playing compositions inspired by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, John Cage.
Facilitated and recorded by Craig Pedersen
Mixed and mastered by Mark Molnar
Why Paint at All?
The Craig Pedersen Quartet
released 28 October 2013
Craig Pedersen, trumpet, composition
Linsey Wellman, alto saxophone
Joel Kerr, double bass
Mike Essoudry, drums
Reflections on Why Paint at All? by Mark Rothko
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It’s a Free Country
Craig Pedersen and Joel Kerr
released 09 June 2013
Craig Pedersen – trumpet
Joel Kerr – bass
It’s a Free Country is bridge between country music and free improvisation, both to the listeners and performer, providing a vehicle for expression and connection not always otherwise available independently in these styles. It’s A Free Country exemplifies this approach – ranging from beautiful arranged melodies, to interjections of extended techniques, to raucous free playing, often treading the line between deadly serious and humourous.
Recorded by Craig Pedersen
Mixed and mastered by Matt Ouimet
Except Crazy, recorded and mixed by Matt Ouimet, and mastered by Philip Shaw Bova at Bovasound
Cover art by Dave Cooper (davegraphicsyeah.wordpress.com)
Back cover design by Jamie Breiwick (jamiebreiwick.net)
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Flux
Craig Pedersen & Taylor Brook
released 21 March 2013
Craig Pedersen – trumpet
Taylor Brook – guitar
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Taylor Brook.
March 2013 at the Columbia University University Music Centre, NYC
Cover by Craig Pedersen
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Live in Silence
Pedersen/Lampron/Gobeil/Kerr/Thibodeau
released 18 January 2013
Craig Pedersen, trumpet
Patrick Lampron, tenor saxophone
Dominic Gobeil, guitar
Joel Kerr, double bass
Eric Thibodeau, drums
recorded July 27th, 2012 at Bar Les Pas Sages, Montreal, QC
recording, mixing and mastering by Paul Johnston
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Grey Areas #1-9
solo trumpet
released 10 October 2011
Craig Pedersen, solo trumpet, composition, recording, album design
Matt Ouimet, mixing and mastering
Days Like Today
The Craig Pedersen Quartet
Craig Pedersen – trumpet
Linsey Wellman – saxophone
Joel Kerr – double bass
Mike Essoudry – drums
credits
released 29 November 2011
Recorded, mixed and co-produced by Matt Ouimet at Resonator Studios in Ottawa, ON.
Mastered by Phil Shaw Bova at Bovasound in Ottawa, ON
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