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The Whole Package!

by Matt Savage

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1.
The Savage Life Chose Me 08:12
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2.
The Next Dancer 06:11
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3.
It's Time to Renew 05:57
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4.
Hit It Harder! 06:38
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5.
Sometimes and Always 07:21
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6.
About a Girl 08:53
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7.
Pondside Waltz 05:49
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8.
Downtown Flats 05:03
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9.
You Must Believe in Spring 05:49
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10.
Speed Limit 55 08:17
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11.
I Know That You Know 07:11
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about

THE WHOLE PACKAGE! is jazz pianist/composer Matt Savage’s most ambitious project yet, and the culmination of the difficult pandemic years. It’s a companion album to THE GROOVE REAWAKENS by the Matt Savage Groove Experiment, but it’s also Savage’s first acoustic “straight-ahead” jazz CD since 2016.

There are eight original jazz tracks and three cover songs included on THE WHOLE PACKAGE! “The Savage Life Chose Me” is the opener, starting with a drum solo by Zak King and quickly building to an extremely fast bebop head. Matt Savage takes over with a dramatic and virtuosic piano solo, albeit one that also shows melodic restraint and the influence of past generations of pianists. Mark Zaleski adds saxophone fuel to the fire, with a long solo that culminates in one very intense held note.

Many of the other tunes on this record hold a deep personal connection to the band. “Pondside Waltz” features bassist Greg Loughman and was inspired by a walk around Jamaica Pond in Boston, while “The Next Dancer” was written in honor of the birth of Mark Zaleski’s first child.

There are also three standards, from vastly different decades – “You Must Believe in Spring” (1967), “I Know That You Know” (1926), and a version of Nirvana’s 1989 hit “About a Girl” that features an extended piano cadenza.

Intensely improvisational, yet with more sense of weight and maturity than on previous combo records, Matt Savage’s The Whole Package! is packed with surprises throughout.

Recorded at Wellspring Sound, Acton, MA, from May 25-27, 2022

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released June 16, 2023

Matt Savage – piano (all tracks except #3), electric piano (tracks 3, 4, 6, 10)
Mark Zaleski – alto saxophone (tracks 1-2, 4-10), soprano saxophone (tracks 3, 11)
Greg Loughman – bass
Zak King – drums

Executive Producer: Matt Savage
Recording Engineer: Joshua Lu, Wellspring Sound
Mixing and Mastering: Jonathan Wyner, M Works Mastering Studios
Artwork and Graphic Design: Jessica Kion
Photography: Joe Musacchia

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Matt Savage Boston, Massachusetts

I play jazz and other piano things. I hope you enjoy what we have in store for you.

Currently leading the Matt Savage Groove Experiment and Matt Savage Quartet.

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