Most Don't Have Enough

by Alex Weiss

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1.	The Leonard Nimoy Method 03:43	buy track
2.	Your Dark Shadow Arrives at the Door 03:27 video	buy track
3.	Homage to Elijah Cummings 08:06	buy track
4.	Thread Your Grandmother's Needle 03:27	buy track
5.	Really Ok 04:05	buy track
6.	Thumbelina 04:59	buy track
7.	Organized Religion 02:16	buy track
8.	Humpty Dumpty 07:19	buy track
9.	Akira: Sun and Moon 07:56	buy track

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Alex Weiss - tenor saxophone & compositions
Dan Blake - soprano saxophone
Yana Davydova - guitar
Dmitry Ishenko - bass
Ches Smith - drums
(guest) Marta Sanchez - piano (tracks 3 & 9)

Says Weiss, “at a time when attention spans are fractured by information overload and the importance of satisfying our immediate desires competes with the ability to sustain our focus, listening to an entire album from start to finish is a tall order to ask of anyone. The art of creating an entire album is in fact, archaic; the word album itself is outdated. However, when we come to the end of our lives, if we’ve created some beauty during our stay, then we can rest content. This body of music is a gesture in that direction however old-fashioned. I hope it touches everyone who hears it in a meaningful way and satisfies you even for a fleeting moment.

This project started before the pandemic. So this music has been developing and shaping for quite some time now. I started to write again after a bit of a hiatus as my life became extraordinarily busy with a new baby boy, Akira. But the time he was born and the time the music was born is the same. The time of Trump as president and a new era of brutality that he brought forth. This compounded by the pandemic really informed the compositions that make this album; Most Don’t have Enough.

Initially, I had wanted to write again with composition being the centerpiece of the music. Yes, improvisation from the original melody plays out in the music but I really wanted to write music with preconceived stories to tell. Developed compositions that turn, unfold, and reveal while providing improvisation and spontaneous communication.”

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released February 24, 2023

Recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi at BC Studio in Brooklyn NY USA
Mastered by Eli Crews at Sillway Sound in West Hurley NY USA
Album concept/design and art by John Whitlock

*All compositions by Weiss except ‘Really Ok’ by Chris Speed and ‘Humpty Dumpty’ by Ornette Coleman.

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Alex Weiss Brooklyn, New York

Alex Weiss has been playing saxophone for 35 years. He's played and recorded with artists such as John Tchicai, Wadado Leo Smith, Bertram Turetsky, Ches Smith, Marco Ineidi, Glen Spearman and many others. Alex is now leading and writing for his new quintet, Glad Irys, with Dan Blake: soprano sax, Yana Davydova: guitar, Dmitry Ishenko: bass and Ches Smith: drums.
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