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NOIR

This is Jazz NOIR

About Me


Jesse Selengut and NOIR define and codify a new genre with their first album "This is Jazz Noir." Fusion is such a dated, icky word and doesn't account for genres such as crack-reggae, hip-hop, electro, acid, reggaeton, salsa, etc... So spin all this stuff together, let it inside whilst living in the center of New York Gravity, and the urban confetti of jazz noir is the result.
NOIR has been through several incarnations over the last four or five years, putting together the right pieces in the right way. Highlights along the way included opening up for such terrific bands such as Chris Potter, Dave Douglas, George Garzone, and Joe Lovano and being the host band for the Williamsburg Jazz Festival for three years straight.
NOIR currently holds court every Sunday at the Surf Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It's a small room but for some reason everybody digs it when NOIR tears it up.
---NEWS FLASH---
CD BABY picks "This is Jazz Noir" to be on their homepage starting 8/18/06. They also wrote a great review of the album. You can read it in the blog. You can purchase the CD at CD Baby .
Buy it on iTunes

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/26/2006
Band Website: jesseselengut.com
Band Members: Jesse Selengut - trumpet
Daniel Kelly - keys
Kyle Struve - drums
Chris Tarry - bass
Influences: Right now, We're really into Dave Douglas, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Ornette Coleman. We were recently addicted to Outkast. Sly and Robbie loom large.I just started reading this book called "As Serious as Your Life" by Valerie Wilmer and it details the lives of Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and Anthony Braxton among others. Man, it's heavy. So I've been listening to a lot of that these days.
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Type of Label: None

My Blog

A BREAK IN THE ACTION (WKCR APPEARANCE)

I had a lot of fun on Wednesday evening going over to WKCR - 89.9FM studios and being part of the musician's show. I wanted to take a break from the Kenya story and describe a little bit about it.I w...
Posted by NOIR on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

TUESDAY (DAY 8) - THE MASAI MARA - Balloons and Masai

Things are quite busy for me these days with the Williamsburg Jazz Festival underway. I did manage to post some DAY 8 PHOTOS.Much went down on this day and I will write about it in detail as soon as ...
Posted by NOIR on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:11:00 PST

MONDAY (DAY 7) - THE MASSAI MARA (SAFARI)

View Photos that go with this entry...We woke up at Jon's house and started packing. Wine, coffee, deet, warmer clothes. Zodi wouldn't be coming with us because school was starting for him but Macau...
Posted by NOIR on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:26:00 PST

SUNDAY (DAY 6) - CLUB AFRIQUE - The Rabbi Dance

During the day Jon's Dad Gordon stopped by and dropped of Zuki, his 6 year old son with his second wife. Gordon is 65. Jon is 40. Zodi (Jon's son) is 11. Zuki (Jon's little brother and Zodi's uncle...
Posted by NOIR on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:33:00 PST

SATURDAY (DAY 5) - SHANGILIA DAY

I have posted a photo gallery because there were so many great photos that I want to share with you about today's events. This was a wonderful time for us and helped to deepen our experience of Afric...
Posted by NOIR on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:56:00 PST

FRIDAY (DAY 4) - THE NGONG HILLS

Friday turned out to be a day off for us. We had initially been planning on performing at Mercury both Friday's here but the successes of their Friday night DJ scene made them not want to take risks ...
Posted by NOIR on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:18:00 PST

THURSDAY (DAY 3) - MERCURY TRIUMPH

We had been getting in the habit of staying up to 4 or 5 in the morning. For the first two nights, Chris hooked up his iPod. He loaded it up special with music that he thought we would enjoy. It's ...
Posted by NOIR on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:40:00 PST

WEDNESDAY (DAY 2) - MERCURY DEBUT

Good morning again with some Java House Tea. Getting hooked on it. In Nairobi, our second day was a slow one in many regards. We just lazed around the compound during the day. At some point we went...
Posted by NOIR on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:46:00 PST

TUESDAY (DAY 1) - CARNIVORE

I woke up this morning (9/6), here in Brooklyn, and had a cup of Java House Tea. A simple thing perhaps but the history and politics around this beverage have launched a thousand ships for the Britis...
Posted by NOIR on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:11:00 PST

INTRO and ARRIVAL

TUESDAY SEPT 4THI am currently sitting in the airport back in the U.S. One more leg of the journey to go as we got routed through Detroit. It's been a long, long day of travel and the boys and I are ...
Posted by NOIR on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:50:00 PST