Nimble Digits Geoff Stradling & the StradBand

• 1Blue Note06:13
• 2Brecker Sketch (in memoriam Michael Brecker)07:42
• 3Poinciana06:27
• 4Nimble Digits05:16
• 5Baton Noir04:35
• 6Here in Spirit05:50
• 7Don't Shoot the Messenger06:41
• 8Iguaçu05:05
• 9Wrap Party07:25
• 10Habanero07:31
• Total Runtime01:02:45

Info for Nimble Digits

The wide breadth of the modern jazz orchestra - from the styles originated by Gil Evans, to post-Miles fusion, to Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian influences.

Los Angeles-based composer/arranger/keyboardist Geoff Stradling has spent most of his decades-long career focused on the success of other's films, TV shows and albums he's been associated with, including many years as Music Director of the Golden Globe Awards. All along, his StradBand acted as a workshop for his concepts and a collective project for many of his colleagues. With Nimble Digits, the band takes center stage, highlighting the wide breadth of the modern jazz orchestra—from the styles originated by Gil Evans, to post-Miles fusion, to Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian influences. He wields his ensemble the way the best bandleaders always have, playing to individual musicians' strengths while maintaining a strong and personal harmonic, contrapuntal, and textural thematic throughout. L.A.'s musical talent pool is dozens deep at every chair, and many of its brightest stars are here, with thirty-one musicians bringing Stradling's music to life.

"4 1/2 STARS Remember the good old days when bandleaders would give a downbeat and their bands would start swinging and keep on doing so until their audiences literally begged for more? Welcome to the past—present tense—courtesy of pianist Geoff Stradling's superb Los Angeles-based StradBand, which swings heartily and with seldom a pause on its ..." (All About Jazz, Jack Bowers)

"Pianist and keyboardist Geoff Stradling puts together a big band for his crisp and warm arrangements of mostly originals, almost all with an alluring Latin feel. The rhythm section of drums, congas, bongos, shakers and you name it create a percolating undercurrent for the whole affair. Joe DeLeon's timbales sizzle on the festive "Habanero" and a re ..." (Jazz Weekly, George W Harris)

Geoff Stradling, piano, compositions, arrangements
The StradBand

Geoff Stradling
is a musician in Los Angeles. Equally comfortable composing, arranging, orchestrating, playing piano and keyboards, conducting, and serving as a musical director. He is the Music Director of the Golden Globe Awards, the author of the books “Exercises for the Modern Pianist” and “13 Etudes for the Modern Pianist, and host of the web series “MultiGeek.”

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