Recordings

Timucua Records is pleased to offer those recordings: -Mardi Gras at Timucua       -64 minutes-  Brass Band Music with  many flavours , swing, funk, blues, R&B, Hard Bop. Played by the Timucua Brass Band  -9 of the best brass players in central florida To listen (or buy at $18 + shipping)  on the CD Baby site, CLICK HERE: http://www.cdbaby.com/timucua -Il Regalo dell'Imperatore     -72 minutes- Baroque Opera with a story by Ralph Daniel Rawe, featuring Ralph Daniel Rawe, David Walker, and Michelle Amato To listen (or buy at $18 + shipping)  on the CD Baby site, CLICK HERE: http://www.cdbaby.com/glazer -Lover Lover (Dowg) Single   To listen (or buy at $7 + shipping) on the CD Baby site, CLICK HERE: http://www.cdbaby.com/glazerfamily   -4 minutes-  Featuring Lesley-Anne Benjamin on vocals, Yves Nadeau on guitar, and the Glazer Children         -at a very special price of $5 each.-$2 for the MP3 file over email-   -Save your Love for Me, from Jeff Rupert and Dirty Martini Great brasilian jazz from these masters. Buy from us at $16 + Shipping, or go to CD baby, CLICK HERE: http://cdbaby.com/cd/rupertmartini -Tableaux, from guitar virtuoso Yves Nadeau Great CD from this Canadian guitarist, now playing at La Nouba To hear and buy, CLICK HERE: http://www.yvesnadeau.com   _________________________________________________________ You can purchase all full length CD's from this website at these prices:   One: $16, Two: $30, Five: $70, Ten: $130   Prices include tax, but please include $2 for shipping per small package.                 To order: 1-Send money via paypal at:       benoit@benoitglazer.com  and be sure to include in the message box:       How many copies of which CD's you would like, your name and phone number. 2-Send a cheque or money order along with all the relevant details to:       Timucua Records, 1113 Finchley Place, Orlando, FL   32837

Mardi Gras Cover Art by Paul Vincenti

Regalo Cover Art by Juan Sepulveda

Our CD's in the Press

-Review by Jack Simpson for the Central Florida Jazz Society Newsletter, May 2005 Mardi Gras at Timucua When I read the personnel list, I saw several familiar and respected names, like Wertz, Hagler, Bradette and Metz. After listening some more, I realized that you really have to be some kind of musician to play this kind of music (well,I mean), and obviously they all are! At first I was not all that enthused. It is not all bop,by any means, there's some very very funky stuff, especially "Dowg" which has a spectacular alto solo by Dan Martel. I asked Lorraine what she thought. "I like it a lot" she said , "I can almost see Ray Charles swaying along at his keyboard!" I'm glad that I Iistened some more. My favorite cuts are "Slander" with Rex Wertz, alto and Keith Oshiro, trombone. Lorraine knew immediately which standard tune it's based on. Another is "Lonna Dee" (you can probably figure that one out!). After a couple more listens I was very impressed with the Benoit Glazer compositions, arrangements and performance. If you need to demonstrate, perhaps to a young player, how good drumming should sound during a jazz piece, have him listen to Eddie Metz Jr. here! This music is so interesting, so entertaining, and getting into it, is so enjoyable!  A candidate for "Years best" I would say!   -David Martin, Music Director at WUCF-FM  89.9 "Man, I love that CD (Mardi Gras at Timucua). I play it on the air all the time. I can't believe it was recorded in Benoit's living room. Outstanding!" -Richard Bourcier, JazzReview.com *Here's a New Orleans "street beat" brass band direct from the suburbs of Orlando, Florida. In itself, that's not unusual *BUT* they play in private homes. How would you like to have a 9 or 10 piece brass band in your living room? The /Timucua Arts Foundation/ is the brainchild of Benoit Glazer and his wife Elaine Corriveau. Like this writer, they are natives of Montreal where Glazer was a faculty member of McGill University. He now acts as musical conductor for *La Nouba* a creation of Montreal's famed *Cirque du Soleil*. The foundation arranges monthly concerts of various musical styles held in the Glazer home. Local visual artists are invited to bring along their art. The whole concept is a way of bringing the arts back home to the community. The music is pure fun! Benoit Glazer composed, arranged, recorded, edited and mixed the whole thing. It's his personal Louisiana gumbo with bits of blues, bop, swing, early jazz and plenty of funk. The soup was three years in the making and the seasoning is just right. This is some of the happiest music you'll ever hear. The musicians are top-notch players driven by an irresistible beat laid down by *Josh Parsons'* sousaphone and drum star *Ed Metz Jr.*. Metz is probably the busiest drummer in traditional jazz today. He often performs at Disney World and records prolifically for Florida's *Arbors Records*. Benoit Glazer is a gifted trumpet player and appears on about eighty CDs in various musical genres. You can listen to samples of the Timucua Brass Band on line. You won't be able to control your feet. *Tracks: *Jelly?s Rhythm; Mintz Balls; Lonna Dee; Monday Night; Elaku; Le Blues Gras; Da Blues; Nice And Warm; Slander; Let The Good Times Jelly Roll; Dowg. *Record Label Website: *http://www.timucua.com *Listen or Buy: *http://www.cdbaby.com/timucua * Reviewed by: * Richard Bourcier <http://www.jazzreview.com/contact/contacts_us-3382.html>