Feel the Love Farnell Newton

• 1 Feel The Love 04:43
• 2 Affectionately Roy 04:16
• 3 I'll Catch You 04:50
• 4 A Child Not Yet Born 05:13
• 5 The Bluest Eyes 06:34
• 6 Litoral 06:52
• 7 Pale 06:06
• 8 The Force Of Gravity 04:34
• 9 Laws Of Motion 04:37
• 10 Lawn Darts 05:19
• 11 Our Chosen Family 05:44
• Total Runtime 58:48

Info for Feel the Love

Emotional integrity is the keynote address when Farnell Newton plays his trumpet with heartfelt and hopeful expressiveness entreating us to “Feel the Love.” As this 2021 album covers a wide range of moods and genres, Newton's trumpet playing remains steadily focused on portraying the subtle and tasteful elements of his style. He pushes melodicism to the forefront while also demonstrating his formidable command of the instrument. The whole album is truly a labor of love. To make this happen, Newton traveled east from Portland Oregon to New York City, to work with Posi-Tone and their capable rhythm section of pianist Art Hirahara, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummers Rudy Royston and Joe Strasser. The album also features wonderful guest appearances from several of Farnell's favorite saxophonists, including Jaleel Shaw, Braxton Cook, Brandon Wright, and Patrick Cornelius. With an amazing combination of diverse talents, several brilliant performances, and an evocative program of musical compositions, Farnell Newton keeps everything moving steadily straight forward, and continues to announce he is an important and emerging voice on today's jazz scene.

Farnell Newton, trumpet
Art Hirahara, piano
Boris Kozlov, bass
Rudy Royston, drums & percussion on all but 4, 6, 9
Braxton Cook, alto saxophone on 2, 10
Jaleel Shaw, alto saxophone on 3, 5, 7
Joe Strasser, drums on 4, 6, 9
Brandon Wright, tenor saxophone on 4
Patrick Cornelius, alto saxophone on 6, 9
Michael Dease, trombone on 7

Farnell Newton
Composer/Trumpeter, was born on March 21, 1977, in Miami, Florida, where he was exposed to many forms of music, including jazz, salsa, funk, and hip-hop. Moving to Philadelphia in 1992, he attended the High School of Creative and Performing Arts (C.A.P.A.) and gained more exposure to and experience with the music he truly loves — jazz. While in Philadelphia, Farnell also learned a lot from his uncles, saxophonist/arranger Conny Murray, and Sunny Murray, “the father of avant-garde drumming.”

Re-locating to Denver in 1994, Farnell graduated from the Denver School of the Arts and then moved to Ohio to study at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. At Oberlin, Farnell studied Music Performance with an emphasis in jazz with Wendell Logan and trumpeter Kenny Davis. Farnell Performed with many musicians, including Aretha Franklin, James Moody, Marvin Santiago, and Muhal Richard Abrams, during his time at Oberlin.

After graduating from Oberlin, Farnell moved to Portland, Oregon, where he has performed regularly with musicians such as Mel Brown, Thara Memory, Bobby Torres, Johnny Polanco, Ricardo Lemvo, and Darrell Grant, to name a few. In 2006, Farnell released his first album, ”Sense of Direction,” co-led by pianist Marcus Reynolds on Diatic Records. From 2007-2009, he served as Graduate Assistant of Music Performance at Portland State University.

This album contains no booklet.