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Stanley Maxwell

About Me

Connecticut-based four-piece Stanley Maxwell’s independently-produced debut album “Don’t Wake The Baby!” was released in May 2008 on Mindwill Records (the band's own record label) and is available from the Home Grown Music Network and iTunes. The group blends (among many other influences) jazz, funk and rock with tight arrangements and intricate group improvisation. The disc includes “Mousetrap”, an eleven-bar blues influenced by Thelonious Monk. The band’s recording of the composition by pianist Evan Green has attracted international attention, including winning the Relix Magazine November 2007 “JamOff” contest, and winning “Best Jazz Song” in the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards. The album was recorded in Bristol, Connecticut by Dan Silvia of Hillgrove Recording, and mastered by Anthony Latt of the LattKave Recording Studio in Yonkers, New York. The band has built a grassroots name for themselves throughout the Northeast since 2001, with memorable performances at the New Haven Jazz Festival, SoNo Arts Celebration, Adirondack Music Festival, Northeast Kingdom Music Festival, plus Dfest in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and with artists including The Charlie Hunter Trio, The New Deal, The Breakfast, Dub Is A Weapon, Ryan Montbleau, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Zappa Plays Zappa, Cyro Baptista & Beat The Donkey, The Disco Biscuits, The Roots, DJ Le Spam & The Spam Allstars, Hypnotic Clambake, Addison Groove Project, Mountain of Venus, Seth Yacovone, Raisinhill, moe, and members of Max Creek.

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Member Since: 21/11/2005
Band Website: http://www.stanleymaxwell.com/
Band Members: Evan Green - Piano, Keyboard, Organ, Fender Rhodes, Melodica;Eric DellaVecchia - Alto Sax, Flute;Mark Crino - 5 String Electric and 4 String Fretless Bass;Andy Chatfield - Drumset, Marimba, Percussion.
Influences: Phish, Medeski, Martin & Wood, The Grateful Dead, John Scofield, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Parliament Funkadelic, The Meters, Greyboy All-Stars, Charlie Hunter, Dave Douglas, Dave Holland, John Zorn's Masada, The New Deal, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Primus, Cyro Baptista, Sun Ra, The Philadelphia Experiment, Average White Band, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Gary Numan, Tony Williams, Ornette Coleman, Bjork, Daft Punk
Sounds Like: Herbie Hancock, Maceo Parker, James Brown, Thelonious Monk, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Greyboy All-Stars, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Led Zeppelin, The Philadelphia Experiment, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, The Meters, Phish, Average White Band, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Gary Numan, Tony Williams, Ornette Coleman, Bjork, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson
Record Label: Mindwill Records (band's independent record label)

My Blog

Stanley Maxwell on "Better Connecticut"

Watch Stanley Maxwell's performance of "Mousetrap" from today's WFSB Channel 3's "Better Connecticut" morning show with Scot Haney and Kara Sundlun online here: http://lnk.ms/3LC1DPurchase "Mousetrap"...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Stanley Maxwell to play Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"

Save the date - Stanley Maxwell will be performing Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album in its entirety with Johanna, Jeffrey "Axlovin" Howard, and other special guests: Saturday, January 9, 2010 ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:22:00 GMT

Stanley Maxwell wins "Best Jazz Band" in 2009 Hartford Advocate Grand Band Slam Readers Poll

Stanley Maxwell has won the "Best Jazz Band" category in the Hartford Advocate Grand Band Slam Reader's Poll (we won in 2007 as well). Thanks for your votes!Click here to read the article about all of...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:09:00 GMT

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

In memory of Michael Jackson, Stanley Maxwell debuted their arrangement of the 1979 classic "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" at their gig on July 3 in Lakeside, Connecticut. Stanley Maxwell had prev...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:44:00 GMT

Listen to Stanley Maxwell on the Live Music Archive

Listen to recent live shows by Stanley Maxwell by downloading them from the Internet Archive's Live Music library:http://www.archive.org/details/StanleyMaxwellThe Internet Archive teamed up with etree...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 09:14:00 GMT

"No Good Reasons" and "The Ocean" on YouTube

Three more clips of Stanley Maxwell performing at Positronic Design's"Scorpion Bowl III"  in Holyoke, MA - their annual rock-n-roll businessnetworking keg party - have been posted on YouTube: "No Good...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:48:00 GMT

Hartford Advocate: Music - "Pigs on the Wing"

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11... Check out this article about Stanley Maxwell's performance of Pink Floyd's "Animals" from the Hartford Advocate.
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:35:00 GMT

Stanley Maxwell - "A Call For All Demons (Part One)" - 11/8/08 - Positronic Design, Holyoke, MA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvxugYfypp8
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:34:00 GMT

"Dont Wake The Baby!" reviewed by Home Grown Music Network

Stanley Maxwell's album "Don't Wake The Baby!" has been reviewed by Bryan Rodgers of the Home Grown Music Network:http://www.homegrownmusic.net/product-reviews/stanle y-maxwell-dont-wake-the-baby"Conne...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:29:00 GMT

Stanley Maxwell, Eric DellaVecchia, Evan Green Nominated On Official Grand Band Slam Ballot

The official Grand Band Slam 2008 voting period is closing this week! Go to http://hartfordadvocate.com to select your favorite local artists on the Hartford music scene!Please vote for official ballo...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:38:00 GMT