Showing posts with label ANOTHER SHOT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANOTHER SHOT. Show all posts

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Bad Press. . .

. . . is better than no press. . .

When I first read Samantha's review of my release ANOTHER SHOT, I was somewhat hurt.  After all, when one spends considerable time, effort (and maybe even talent) on a particular project, one doesn't like to have it so easily and summarily dismissed.  But on re-reading it, she really did have some nice things to say about the solo piano.  I don't really feel so bad about it after reading it again. Well, you live and you learn.  I'm willing to go on.  I even hope Samantha will review another one of my releases.  (Hell.  I got 5 Golden Eggs - That doesn't sound bad. . .does it?)

(from "Buzzlegoose.com" by Samantha Hatfield) 
"In all of my musical experiences there is a genre that has in some ways always evaded me.  While I love old standards, there is something about jazz music that I just never really understood.  When I was passed Ray Jozwiak’s latest album Another Shot I sat down, in an attempt to find the beauty in a musical art form that never totally made sense.

Ray Jozwiak is a Baltimore-based artist who performs what can be referred to as “fractured jazz”.  His compositions are focused in piano performance.  Jozwiak uses piano, keyboard, acoustic guitar, and electronic and acoustic percussion throughout the album to achieve a layering effect with much of his music.  Much of his music is what can be called “fractured jazz” but his more classic piano compositions are much more enjoyable.

“Impressive”, the second track on the album is a more traditional jazz piano performance.  Rather than getting weighed down by the combination of too many instrumental layers, Jozwiak uses just the piano to create a rather lengthy arrangement.  It is pleasant to listen to containing many bluesy tones.  “Pedantic Verdantic” is another soothing piano composition.

In much of the rest of the album, Jozwiak provides music that listens more as an instrumental jam band break a la Phish.  However, this is a somewhat lame comparison because when you listen to a Phish record there is something about it that really jams ringing true with heart and feeling.  Much of Jozwiak’s music has a fake electrical sound as though it were produced in a computer or through the stock sounds of an electric keyboard.

“Fred & Ginger” is a very strange track that sounds as though it was imported straight from a 70s couples cruise.  This is the only track on the album that contains vocals and was intended to be a “tale of woe” but did not read this way at all.  There is something extremely cheesy about the whole song that becomes muddled about halfway through getting lost in a mess of drum, tambourine, piano and vocals.

Jozwiak’s Another Shot certainly made me appreciate traditional jazz much more than I ever had in the past but his experimental, keyboard produced “fractured jazz” lacked heart and sincerity.  His compositions seem strong, but he needs work on finding something truly inspiring and heartfelt.

5 Golden Eggs

Top Tracks: “Pedantic Vedantic”"


PEDANTIC VEDANTIC
From ANOTHER SHOT
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©2010 Raymond M. Jozwiak




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Thursday, June 30, 2011

What's in a name?

The new video that greets you at the homepage of my website http://www.rayjozwiak.com is a performance of my composition entitled IMPRESSIVE, of which the studio version appears on my latest release ANOTHER SHOT (digital-download-only at)
Ray Jozwiak: Another Shot
The title, I would like to explain, is truly not a shameless display of unwarranted ego or any such thing, it is inspired by the John Coltrane piece IMPRESSIONS which has, likewise, a blues-based, modal structure not unlike many tunes on Miles' 'Kind of Blue', and subsequently the title is a corruption of that of its inspiration. (Maybe I should have called it BLUENESS?)



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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Google me this. . .

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Ray Jozwiak: Another Shot


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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Busy, busy, busy. . .

Been Trying to Get the Word out about ANOTHER SHOT

Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano
performs the piano prelude This Week!
Monday, April 25, 7;30PM at Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery (Songwriters Showcase-Upstairs)
124 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701
Telephone: 301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874
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Ray Jozwiak: Another Shot


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

I'm feeling dead. . .

. . . on my feet. I've got that stubble on my chin. Spent half the night on the job. I'm gonna bring that new account in.
There ain't no supper on the table. The lady knows just where I've been. I do the best that I am able with the limited resources I have in matters of the heart. And if it's coming down to minding my own business, it's just the business I've been minding; that I've been minding all the time. You gotta make up your mind. I always wanted to grow up shooting outlaws while riding on the back of a horse. But that just wasn't a part of the plan. My mother told me to always be a good boy. But I'm a company man. I do the best that I can. My wife and children will have to wait in line for my time 'cause I'm a company man.

This lookin' bad isn't good. The only answer is ignore it. A little pain here and there, you get some medicine and cure it. It's not that I can't take the PRESSURE. The pot is boiling all the time. It's only that I'm being measured by the powers in the boardroom above. They're always watching me. And if I miss an opportunity to make another, to make a profit they will find it. And it'll certainly be missed. Another cheek to be kissed. I always wanted to grow up shooting outlaws while riding on the back of a horse. But that just wasn't a part of the plan. My mother told me to always be a good boy. But I'm a company man. I do the best that I can. My wife and children will have to wait in line for my time 'cause I'm a company man.

I was so young and idealistic then. Couldn't see the trees for the forest most of the time until I tasted all the choicest wines. Saving money up for that rainy day. Promising a romantic getaway. Have I made a pact with the devil or is it just fate?

I was a child of the light. I always hoped to do the right things. And though they said I was bright there's still a fire inside me burning for all the riches I am missing; for all the love I never found. I wonder who she might be kissing in the middle of a cold winter night when left alone again. I wonder just what I would do if she would leave me; pack up the kids and run away without a singular goodbye. Why in the world would she try? I always wanted to grow up shooting outlaws while riding on the back of a horse. But that just wasn't a part of the plan. My mother told me to always be a good boy. But I'm a company man. I do the best that I can. My wife and children will have to wait in line for my time 'cause I'm a company man.


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very own copy of
ANOTHER SHOT
by Ray Jozwiak
(that's me!)
Ray Jozwiak: Another Shot

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

You don't have to. . .

. . . travel to the record shops, the Best Buys, Targets, WalMarts or the mall. You don’t have to decide whether to pay cash, write a check or use your credit card. You don’t have to lug it home and leave it under the car seat, and go outside in the rain (or snow) to get it after you’ve dragged your groceries, dog food, dry cleaning and six pack in from the car, forgetting that it was even under that car seat. You don’t have to clutter your countertop with that pesky little receipt which you can’t decide whether to throw away, recycle or file, and that your usually leave on the countertop, only to move it back and forth between that countertop and kitchen the table (sometimes the dining room table, for variety) because you couldn’t make the aforementioned decision. You don’t have to add another plastic bag to your already monumental collection which occupies a prominent place in your kitchen, laundry or mud room which frequently find their way to the ocean only to asphyxiate some innocent little sea creature or sit for innumerable years in the trash heap at your local landfill. You don’t have to struggle with that indestructible cellophane wrapping and cut a 2 x 3/4 inch gash in the tenderloin part of your right (your left if you are right-handed) hand using a steak knife to break through, or scour the house for that little plastic ‘cd opener’ which you have so wisely stored in ‘A GOOD PLACE’ which, as we all know, is the place where you will never find it until you have absolutely NO NEED for it! Which, of course, will prompt you to search for a band-aid, which you meant to buy last trip to the grocery store but forgot because you didn’t write it on your grocery list after you used the last one (probably the last time you bought a cd). You don’t have to struggle with that permanent, impenetrable tape that they put at the top of the jewel case and that only comes off in ½ millimeter strips instead of all at once, if and when you can pry off a corner. You don’t have to find a space for it on that over-crowded book-shelf, cd rack or the bottom cupboard of your entertainment center which is already over-stocked with Barney videotapes and chick-flicks that you can only bear to watch once, even though you thought they were funny and that you’d like to own them (the chick-flicks, not the Barney tapes). You don’t have to jam up the cd player in your car because you forgot Dean Martin’s Greatest Hits was still in there and you forced it into the slot anyway to find now that you can’t listen to either of them, or any other cd for that matter. . . or discover that the batteries in your personal cd-man only have enough power to illuminate the display that shows you are low on battery power. . . or find that your cd changer in your stereo has changed. . . it now DOESN’T work (which leads you back to Best Buy, Target etc. above, but that’s another story).

All you have to do is:
purchase it online
download
sit back and listen

Bet you wouldn’t have it any other way!

ANOTHER SHOT by Ray Jozwiak (that's me!)
Ray Jozwiak: Another Shot