J-Town, On Irving Street

J-Town Records announces the release of a new epoch-making CD recording On Irving Street by the group Deems. On Irving Street is exquisitely played. It is a finely wrought, finely executed prime example of the post modern state of the music recording art. This issue is a clear and significant upward marker in the evolution of Jazz in the Northwest and it sets the bar much much higher for a combination of three reasons:

One - It has the authentic and authoritative Northwest interpretive creative viewpoint and contribution in the singularly wonderful activity of spontaneous composition art called Jazz.

Two - It is played by a cast of players at the very height of their inventive and musical performance powers; that being Deems Tsutakawa, Paul Richardson, Merwin Kato, Dan Benson, Paul Anderson, David Yamasaki, Tim Horiuchi, Gordon Uchima, and Steve Ryals. These guys are slammin'.

Three - The issue in itself is a huge step up in the quality of Northwest musical recording.

The arrangement and production by Deems and the sterling, inventive co-production and engineering by Tim Horiuchi is exceptional. It sets the bar much higher in the evolution of Jazz and all music homegrown and released from the Northwest U.S. The better the sound system that it is played back on, the better and better it sounds. It is one of those rare issues that make one's eyes gleam and head shake..."Am I really hearing this?"

This combination of factors will make knowing music aficionados rush out and purchase this local release so that in the future they may state with pride, "I have a copy of the original release on J-Town before the international recording entity picked it up for worldwide distribution."

The tracks are led off by an incisive postmodern re-arranged rendition by Misseurs Tsutakawa and Richardson of the classic Northwest title Tough Tofu. An array of tasty cuts follows. On Irving Street, Love Eclipse, Slippin 'into Darkness, & Love Comes Home are particularly joyous and noteworthy. The issue closes with an interesting and quirky version of the individualistic Erroll Garner's Misty...surprises never end.