Dear
Friends and Fans! Thank
you so much for your participation in bringing our new album to life! We have raised
$1200 to this date. We can fairly easily reach our goal of $3900 by Feb 21 if we
keep pressing on. You can help us make history and this is how: The
fact is that with just 120 of you contributing $15 you will receive a digital download
and we will surpass our goal. And it gets better-at $45 you will also receive a
physical CD and a personal "thank you" note on our website. At $75 you
will receive all of the above and we will also thank you in the sleeve notes...
More details are available at the link below. Thank you for all your kind
contributions! Love & Gratitude from Carter/Pivec/Ruzicka http://igg.me/p/318597/x/2190809 P.S. We
as a group truly appreciate your interest in our music and any financial support,
large or modest. You are investing in a truly groundbreaking project. Another great
way to help our effort is sharing the music and the campaign with everyone (both
individuals and businesses) who may be interested in supporting it. We've prepared
an extensive line-up of rewards for all of you who will help, from signed CD's to
private concerts. Here's the link: www.indiegogo.com/CPR/wdgi/2190809 
Thank you from the bottom of my heart and I wish you many blessings
and much success in 2013! -Karel
iTunes
"Ruzicka (Ravi Coltrane, George Benson, Roy Hargrove) is a very, dynamic, modern
saxophonist, playing much in the style of the late Michael Brecker. Ullmann makes
use of his front line partners to the fullest, doubling up with each of them in
different ways for each song. Ruzicka helps him amplify the thematic lines on the
opening “When” and the closing “Reckon,” as well as the
6/8-paced “Gesture.” Moreover, the individual performances stand out
in astute ways that bespeaks of guys are well past the stage of showing off chops
for chops’ sake. I think that’s an approach that begins with the leader:
Ullmann prefers clear, resonate timbres using single note progressions that are
most evident in solos such as those found on “March” and “Cycles,”
where he even replicates the warmness of Metheny. Ruzicka excels in locating and
expressing the emotion in a melody, much as Brecker was able to do, and his showcases
on “When,” “March” and “Second Chance” attest
" S.Victor Aaron, Something Else Rewiews" Ruzicka,
who has played on more than 100 albums, expresses a particularly memorable theme
on “Second Chance." Bobby Reed, DownBeat Magazine"At the age 24 the
Prague-born saxophonist Karel Ruzicka Jr. has already achieved (In Prague at least)
the status of legend. The reason is simple: The cat can play. Like Muhammad Ali
in his heyday, Ruzicka can both float like a butterfly and swing like a bee. And
this CD confirms what those who heard Ruzicka play over the years already knew:
The cat can also write music." Siegfried Mortkowitz, Prague Post
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