Comes in a CD jacket with cover art by graphic artist Shelly Criswell of San Antonio, Texas. The physical CD comes with a bonus track called Gran Via - said by Chick Corea to be a "great composition that he connects with." It also comes with 2 surprise extras. The CD jacket will be autographed by Max Holm. Ask for a special personalization at no additional cost. Free shipping is included for US, Canada and Europe.
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about
CANTLEBARY SONG
A few years ago I met and spent a summer with a wonderful family in Park City, Utah. The Cantlebarys are not perfect people; They’re too real for that. Led by the matriarch of the family, they behave in a way that reveals a higher consciousness. They help those in need, but also take care of themselves. They are kind, loving and connected to nature and animals, yet they also suffer the same ups and downs as all of us. They showed me family life that I had never experienced, since I was raised by a single mother. The nuclear family was an eye-opening experience for me. They had lived in Shanghai for several years, so musically I wanted to hint at Asian music. The tune is hopeful, optimistic, joyful and happy because that is how I felt when I lived with them, and it’s how I feel when I think of them.
ABOUT MAX HOLM
Max is the 2019 Downbeat Magazine Outstanding Jazz Piano Performance winner. He's a graduate of the Berklee College of Music, where he was honored as one of the few presidential scholars. In 2018 he received a rare honorable mention from the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, winning in the jazz genre, but coming in second in the combined classical, contemporary and jazz piano categories to a graduate student from Juilliard. In 2016 he was featured on 8 out 10 tunes on the NIMA Jazz Album of the year, The Inside of the Outside, with multi-Grammy Award winners Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band), Branford Marsalis, Victor Wooten, Rashawn Ross and Roy "Futureman" Wooten, among others. Max was a Brubeck Fellow at the Dave Brubeck Institute. He has played hundreds of gigs at many well-known venues in the US and Europe. Most recently he headlined the Formentera Jazz Festival and The Fringe Festival of Jazz L'Estartit in Girona, Spain.
At the age of 14 Max had a near death experience, collapsing after losing half his blood. 7 blood transfusions from 7 strangers saved him. He gave a TED talk about how the blood transfusion/near death experience changed his personality and turned him into a jazz musician.
credits
from DON'T BE A STRANGER,
track released August 9, 2019
Max Holm - Piano
Joan Benavent - Sax
Matthew Baker - Bass
Pancho Montañez - Drums
Produced by Max Holm and Maggie Curran
All tunes composed by Max Holm. Arranged, mixed and mastered by Max Holm. Recorded at Jazztone Studio, Valencia, Spain. Sebastian Laverde, recording engineer.
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