Description

“Music For Moderns” is the 2nd album by the Lounge Art Ensemble, a jazz trio with Peter Erskine on drums, Dave Carpenter on electric & acoustic bass, and Bob Sheppard, saxophones.

Featuring 11 exciting originals + 1 standard, the group redefines “West Coast Jazz” as being entirely relevant, important and modern for our times: “Music For Moderns,” on Fuzzy Music.

(“Music For Moderns” is the 2nd album by the Lounge Art Ensemble. It was also the name of Peter’s father’s band in the early 1940s: “Fred Erskine & his Music for Moderns.”)

Tune listings and credits

Plan 9 (Erskine)
Did It Have To Be You? (Sheppard)
Wouldn’t You? (Sheppard)
Reason To Believe (Erskine)
Mr. Jones To You (Sheppard)
Worth the Wait (Erskine)
Manic Tropical Depression (Carpenter)
Buckling Under (Sheppard)
Communal Solitaire (Sheppard)
Angel Dust (Carpenter)

Bob Sheppard: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Dave Carpenter: acoustic bass, 6-string electric bass
Peter Erskine: drums, percussion

Recorded at Puck Productions, Santa Monica, CA, April 11 + 12, 2005

Cover Art: “Band” by Krzysztof Kokoryn
Photographs by Peter Erskine & Rich Breen
CD design by Connie DePersico & Mark Beecher

Produced by The Lounge Art Ensemble
Executive Producer: Peter Erskine for Fuzzy Music
All recordings property of Fuzzy Music