Sasha Matson - Fillmore Street

Sasha Matson - Fillmore Street/Little Woodstar

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Side A:

  • Suzy Farber: Flute, Piccolo
  • Bruce Williams: Alto Flute, Soprano Sax
  • Andy Farber: Alto Sax, Tenor Sax
  • Kurt Bacher: Bass Clarinet, Baritone Sax, English Horn
  • Bob Millikan: Trumpet
  • Shawn Edmonds: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
  • Summer Camargo: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
  • James Burton III: Trombone
  •  Willie Applewhite: Trombone
  • Jack Schatz: Bass Trombone
  • Marcus Rojas: Tuba
  • Alvester Garnett: Drums
  • Mark Sherman: Percussion
  • Meg Okura: Violin
  •  Adam Birnbaum: Piano and Moog
  • Melissa Slocum: Bass

Side B:

  • Aubrey Johnson: Soprano
  • Tammy Scheffer: Soprano
  • Katie Seiler: Mezzo Soprano
  • Tomás Cruz: Tenor
  • Jacob Khalil: Baritone.
  • Sara Andon: Flute
  • Michelle Forrest: Oboe, English Horn
  • Phil O’Connor: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
  • Brian Scanlon: Alto Sax, Tenor Sax
  • Rob Schaer: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
  • Steve Becknell: Horn in F
  • Steve Trapani: Bass Trombone
  • Doug Tornquist: Tuba
  • Bernie Dresel: Drums
  • Ted Atkatz: Percussion
  • Marcia Dickstein Vogler: Harp
  • Peter Kent: Violin 1
  • Songa Lee: Violin 2
  • Andrew Duckles: Viola
  • Cameron Stone: Cello
  • Karl Vincent: Bass

Written and conducted by Sasha Matson


 

1 LP, standard sleeve

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Stereo

Studio

Record Press :  Quality Record Pressings

Label :  Albany Records

Original Label :  Albany Records 

Side A recorded May and April 2024 at Sear Sound in New York, NY

Side B: Orchestra recorded October 2023 at East/West Studios in Hollywood CA, and Vocals recorded January 2024 at Sear Sound in New York, NY

Engineered by James Farber (side A), Steve Genewick & Chris Allen (side B)

Mixed by James Farber (side A), Chris Allen (side B)

Co-produced by Joe Harley (Blue Note Records) and John Atkinson (Stereophile)

Mastered by Matthew Luthans at The Mastering Lab

Vinyl Mastering: Matt Lutthans

Cover Photography by Anthony Lujan, Mark Miller

Graphic Design by Ian Lascell

Originally Released in February 2025

 

 

Tracks :

Side A

1. Fillmore Street

2. Sonora Pass

3. Mar Vista

Side B

1. Little Woodstar I

2. Little Woodstar II



            

          Review :

          "Sasha Matson will be a name known to many audiophiles through his previous recordings for Audioquest, New Albion, Albany/Troy, and Stereophile. That they all are for labels with an audiophile orientation or association comes as no surprise inasmuch as he has written for Positive Feedback and is currently a Contributing Editor to Stereophile, where he writes about music and sound.He graduated in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he was mentored by the composers Elinor Armer, John Adams, and Andrew Imbrie. Later, he received a PhD in Musical Composition and Theory from UCLA, and he has taught at LaGrange College, Long Island University, and The State University of New York.

          With a background like that you might think Matson writes only so-called “serious music” of a classical bent, but in fact he embraces music across many genres and styles, the result being compositions that draw on a considerable variety of sources and inspirations, including classical, romantic, neo-classical, pop, rock, folk, and jazz, involving quite a lot of cross-pollination. His last album, for example, Molto Molto, is jazz, yet the pieces are cast in classical forms such as symphony and concerto. His new album consists in two separate pieces, Fillmore Street and Little Woodstar— the album’s title runs them together sans conjunctive—for which he employs, and conducts, two sixteen-piece ensembles: a “jazz orchestra,” to which he adds a Moog synthesizer, in Fillmore; and a “studio orchestra,” to which he adds a vocal quintet, in Woodstar. Other differences include a full string quartet, harp, and piccolo in the studio orchestra; a greater complement of brass and saxophones, but no cello, second violin, viola, harp, or piccolo for the jazz orchestra. The extraordinary color and variety he secures from each ensemble are pleasures in and of themselves, especially when captured as colorfully and as vividly as they are in these recordings

          (…)

          Each of Sasha Matson’s last three albums has represented a fresh departure, likewise this new one. If you’ve a taste for music that is highly original without being idiosyncratic, contemporary without being merely trendy, learned yet not in the least academic, serious even when it’s light and amusing, and entertaining in the very best sense of the word, I urge you to investigate this album.” Tracking Angle Review by Payl Seydor


           

          Rating:

          Tracking Angle: Music 10/  11, Sound 10 / 11

           

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