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Embracing Dawn

Christian Sands

Embracing Dawn

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Mack Avenue
UPC: 0673203120921
Catnr: MAC 1209
Release date: 27 September 2024
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Label
Mack Avenue
UPC
0673203120921
Catalogue number
MAC 1209
Release date
27 September 2024
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Pianist/composer Christian Sands’ new album, Embracing Dawn, serves as a cinematic narration of the stages of grief and healing, reflecting Sands’ personal experience while offering a guide for anyone who has experienced loss of any kind.

The album explores musical styles as varied as neo- and alternative soul, mid tempo swing, funky gospel, ballads, acoustic jazz-rock, and trap-style beats, and features collaborations with bassist Yasushi Nakamura, drummer Ryan Sands, guitarist Marvin Sewell, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, and harmonica player Grégoire Maret.

Embracing Dawn unfolds as a masterful example of musical storytelling, with each track representing a chapter in Sands’ journey of recovery and acceptance.

Artist(s)

Christian Sands (piano)

Christian Sands grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and later moved to the nearby Orange. He started playing the piano at a very young age, and took lessons from the age of four; he commented that 'I grew up with it in the house, in the classroom and on stage so it has always been a huge part of my life'. Sands was mentored by pianist Billy Taylor, who allowed the teenager to close one of the sets that Taylor played at the Kennedy Center. Sands went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music. The school's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, led by Bobby Sanabria, recorded the album Kenya Revisited Live in 2009; it was nominated for a Latin Grammy. After graduating, Sands joined Inside Straight, one of bassist Christian McBride's bands; they have toured...
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Christian Sands grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and later moved to the nearby Orange. He started playing the piano at a very young age, and took lessons from the age of four; he commented that "I grew up with it in the house, in the classroom and on stage so it has always been a huge part of my life".
Sands was mentored by pianist Billy Taylor, who allowed the teenager to close one of the sets that Taylor played at the Kennedy Center. Sands went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music. The school's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, led by Bobby Sanabria, recorded the album Kenya Revisited Live in 2009; it was nominated for a Latin Grammy.

After graduating, Sands joined Inside Straight, one of bassist Christian McBride's bands; they have toured internationally.

Sands became a Steinway artist in 2012. In 2014, Sands cited as influences McBride, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, and Marcus Roberts, because "They're coming from the tradition of bringing people into the music, but also moving it forward into new directions". In the same year, Sands became an American Pianists Association Jazz Fellowship Awards Finalist.


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Warren Wolf (vibraphone)

Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore,MD. From the young age of three years old, Warren has been trained on the Vibraphone/Marimba, Drums, and Piano. Under the guidance of his father Warren Wolf Sr., Warren has a deep background in all genres of music. Beginning with classical music, Warren had studied classical composers from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Paganini, Brahms, Vivaldi and Shostakovich. Warren also studied ragtime music learning music from the songbooks of Scott Joplin, Harry Brewer and Geroge Hamilton Green. In Jazz, Warren has studied artist and composers from Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Wynton Marsalis and many others. Warren...
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Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore,MD. From the young age of three years old, Warren has been trained on the Vibraphone/Marimba, Drums, and Piano. Under the guidance of his father Warren Wolf Sr., Warren has a deep background in all genres of music.

Beginning with classical music, Warren had studied classical composers from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Paganini, Brahms, Vivaldi and Shostakovich. Warren also studied ragtime music learning music from the songbooks of Scott Joplin, Harry Brewer and Geroge Hamilton Green. In Jazz, Warren has studied artist and composers from Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Wynton Marsalis and many others.

Warren attended the Peabody Prepatory for eight years studying classical music with former Baltimore Symphony Orchestra member Leo LePage. During his high school years at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Warren studied with current Baltimore Symphony Orchestra member John Locke. After graduating from Baltimore School for the Arts in June of 1997, Warren headed north and enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston,MA.


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Marvin Sewell (guitar)

Grégoire Maret (harmonica)

Maret studied at Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, then The New School in New York City. On March 13, 2012 Maret released his first album as a leader. He has worked with Steve Coleman, Kurt Elling, Pat Metheny, Andy Milne, Meshell Ndegeocello, David Sanborn, Jacky Terrasson, and Cassandra Wilson. In 2003 he was the subject of Swiss filmmaker Frédéric Baillif's documentary Sideman.
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Maret studied at Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, then The New School in New York City. On March 13, 2012 Maret released his first album as a leader. He has worked with Steve Coleman, Kurt Elling, Pat Metheny, Andy Milne, Meshell Ndegeocello, David Sanborn, Jacky Terrasson, and Cassandra Wilson. In 2003 he was the subject of Swiss filmmaker Frédéric Baillif's documentary Sideman.

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Yasushi Nakamura (double bass)

Ryan Sands (drums)

Andrew Joslyn (violin)

Ross Gilliland (double bass)

Composer(s)

Christian Sands (piano)

Christian Sands grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and later moved to the nearby Orange. He started playing the piano at a very young age, and took lessons from the age of four; he commented that 'I grew up with it in the house, in the classroom and on stage so it has always been a huge part of my life'. Sands was mentored by pianist Billy Taylor, who allowed the teenager to close one of the sets that Taylor played at the Kennedy Center. Sands went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music. The school's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, led by Bobby Sanabria, recorded the album Kenya Revisited Live in 2009; it was nominated for a Latin Grammy. After graduating, Sands joined Inside Straight, one of bassist Christian McBride's bands; they have toured...
more

Christian Sands grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and later moved to the nearby Orange. He started playing the piano at a very young age, and took lessons from the age of four; he commented that "I grew up with it in the house, in the classroom and on stage so it has always been a huge part of my life".
Sands was mentored by pianist Billy Taylor, who allowed the teenager to close one of the sets that Taylor played at the Kennedy Center. Sands went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music. The school's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, led by Bobby Sanabria, recorded the album Kenya Revisited Live in 2009; it was nominated for a Latin Grammy.

After graduating, Sands joined Inside Straight, one of bassist Christian McBride's bands; they have toured internationally.

Sands became a Steinway artist in 2012. In 2014, Sands cited as influences McBride, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, and Marcus Roberts, because "They're coming from the tradition of bringing people into the music, but also moving it forward into new directions". In the same year, Sands became an American Pianists Association Jazz Fellowship Awards Finalist.


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01.
Good Morning Heartache
02:31
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
02.
Divergent Journeys
06:43
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
03.
Ain't That the Same
05:56
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
04.
Thought Bubbles I (Can We Talk?)
05:22
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
05.
Serenade of an Angel
06:03
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
06.
MMC
04:25
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
07.
Thought Bubbles II (Do Not Disturb)
03:51
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
08.
Braises de Requiem I (The Embers Requiem, Mov. I)
06:02
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret
09.
Embracing Dawn
06:55
(Christian Sands) Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, Ryan Sands, Marvin Sewell, Andrew Joslyn, Eli Weinberger, Ross Gilliland, Warren Wolf, Grégoire Maret

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