April 20, 2010
To: Listings/Critics/Features
From: Jazz Promo Services
Dear Friends of the Microscopic Septet:
The Micros are using an innovative arts funding Internet resource calledhttp://www.kickstarter.com/ to fund the production of our new CD, Friday The 13th: The Micros Play Monk. Because in today's changed economic environment we are compelled to raise the money to produce the recording ourselves (though the finished recording will be released by Cuneiform Records), we are reaching out to you, our friends and fans, to help us make this CD possible. We have reached within spitting distance of our goal – but we need to reach all of our goal in order to get any of the money. We have five days to get there or we have to give it all back – that’s the way it works. But even once we reach our goal, we are still offering the awards listed - as we actually need a little bit more than the total to cover all of our expenses, so, jump right in!
The seminal jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk has always been a figure who loomed above the Microscopic Septet, like a patron saint or an unhealthy obsession. Both Micros composers have been inspired by his harmony, his rhythm, his humor and his grace, and we played his music from the very inception of the band. Although we always played it at gigs, we never recorded it* until now. We have decided to write brand new arrangements and record an entire CD of Monk's tunes.
However, we need to raise the money to do so. At http://Kickstarter.com/, we offer a range "awards" for different levels of donation (all include a signed copy of the CD, and a credit in the liner notes). These range from other CDs, including a "mystery CD" of unreleased Micros-related material, out-of-print LPs, a blues written in your name, and at a higher level, we will come and perform at a party at your house. (For a really large donation, we will promise never to come and perform at a party at your house, but you probably can't afford that).
As "evidence" that this will be a really great CD, we offer audio from recent performances of some of the material, youtube links to Joel Forrester raconteuring about his relationship with Monk and the Baroness Nica von Koenigswarter and playing Monk Tunes, and promises that we will really, really not screw up again this time if you just let us out of our room.
We really hope you can help, and thank you gratefully for any help you can give. Even if it's just a friendly wink and nod of approval. But money would be better.
Here's where you hear all about it: <http://www.kickstarter.com/
And please forward this email to anyone whom you feel might be willing to support this project.
We thank you.
Phillip Johnston, Joel Forrester and the Microscopic Septet
(micro horns at le poisson rouge phoning home for money)
*with the exception of Joel's arrangement of "Crepuscule With Nellie" on the LP "Off Beat Glory", re-released on the Cuneiform CD "Surrealistic Swing."
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