Jason Yeager - Unstuck In Time The Kurt Vonnegut Suite (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

While Kurt Vonnegut undoubtedly found his true calling as an author, writing such classics as Slaughterhouse-Five, Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle, and the short story collection Welcome to the Monkey House, he once speculated about another potential career. “What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist,” Vonnegut said. “I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.”

The literary world can be thankful that Vonnegut stuck with the typewriter rather than the piano, but on the occasion of the great satirist’s 100th birthday, the pianist and composer Jason Yeager will gift him the next best thing: a new suite of music inspired by Vonnegut’s writings. On Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite, Yeager presents eleven new compositions vibrantly capturing the incisive wit and skewed vision of one of the 20th century’s most inventive and celebrated novelists. The album will be released by Sunnyside on November 11, 2022 to coincide with Vonnegut’s centennial, with a special release event on that date at the Vonnegut Library and Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana. It marks Yeager’s seventh recording as a leader, following his recent collaborative release Hand in Hand (Club44 Records) with spouse Julie Benko, who is currently starring as Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl for the month of August.

TRACKLIST

1. Jason Yeager - Now It’s The Women’s Turn
2. Jason Yeager - Bokonon
3. Jason Yeager - Ballad for Old Salo
4. Jason Yeager - Kilgore’s Creed
5. Jason Yeager - Unk’s Fate
6. Jason Yeager - So It Goes
7. Jason Yeager - Blues for Billy Pilgrim
8. Jason Yeager - Nancy’s Revenge
9. Jason Yeager - Rudy’s Waltz
10. Jason Yeager - Blue Fairy Godmother
11. Jason Yeager - Tralfamadorian Rhapsody



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