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Part of the New Jazz collection. Customers who bought Thursday Group also bought: American Bach Soloists, Jami Sieber, Rob Costlow, DAC Crowell, Altri Stromenti, Chris Harvey, Cheryl Ann Fulton, Seismic Anamoly, Ambient Teknology.
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"Lichterman's broad washes and jagged leads move closely in and around Englar's horn leads. The pair carve out quirky, skewed pathways that both swing freely and chop abrasively, while the rhythm section keeps things juiced with a twin-drum attack and a bass player that rumbles and grooves at ground level."—CMJ New Music Report
"Led by Lichterman's cunning guitar style and Englar's husky sax sound, the quintet travels in daring directions."—Billboard
"The tunes are nearly impossible to forget once heard, including the title cut, Uncle Mean."—Jazz Times
Guitarist Douglas Lichterman writes:
Serious as I was about that -- I thought it would be my career at the time -- it
was another moment that foreshadowed my life as a musician. I was around 11 and
had been taken into Wayne, Maine, a town near where I went to summer camp, to
watch a parade. Leading the parade was the drum corps, and as those guys came
marching toward me playing their snare drums, my entire metabolism changed
forever. I begged my parents for a snare drum and acquired the rest of the set
over the next couple of Christmases.
Of course, by then I'd dropped violin -- and my initial career dreams of a
classical musical -- altogether. My San Francisco rock band, WINDOW, lasted for
six years. During that time I became very interested in Jazz and started
studying Jazz guitar with the one and only Bill Connors (first electric
guitarist in Chick Corea's RETURN TO FOREVER), which changed almost everything
about my technique and approach to music. I became a practice-aholic, sitting in
front of my music stand for several hours every day.
Around that time, I also was introduced to Middle Eastern music by a great
teacher from Iran who first put a dumbek -- a type of handrum -- into my hands.
Since then I have spent a lot of time playing dumbek for belly dancers as part
of several troupes.
When WINDOW ended, I started a progressive Jazz project called THURSDAY GROUP
which soon moved from San Francisco to New York City, where we performed,
recorded two albums and toured the U.S.
To say the least, it's been a pleasure to work with this band and watch it
develop as we have built a repertoire of original music and performed around the
city.
I began my musical life at 8-years-old when I embarked on seven years of
training as a classical violinist, studying with the concert master of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mischa Mischakoff, after surviving a few years of
lessons with his wife.
Soon after, I started playing drums in rock bands around Detroit before I
discovered and subsequently took up the guitar. That led me to became a full-fledged
guitar player and singer-songwriter and to drop out of the University of
Michigan and head west to San Francisco to be near the Jefferson Airplane and
the Grateful Dead and start a San Francisco rock band.
