[Photo by Gulnara Khamatova]
Truth Revolution Records presents acclaimed trumpeter Philip Dizack’s highly anticipated new album, End of an Era. Hailed by Downbeat Magazine as one of 25 Trumpet Players for the Future, Dizack’s era seems to have just begun. Recorded in December of 2011, End of an Era is Dizack’s first partnership with Truth Revolution Records, and marks the trumpeter’s sophomore release.
“I simply wanted this album to be bigger,” Dizack exclaimed. "Every song on the album is extremely personal to me, but the underlying statements are so much broader. "End of an Era" is the moment you realize that what you had is gone; but when something ends, you are simultaneously exposed to something beginning. I aimed to create an album that was relevant to that multi-facetted transition; a transition that everyone goes through on one level or another."
The broad relevance that Dizack strives for is certainly clear on songs like Yéle - Haitian for ‘Cry Freedom’ - a song simultaneously written for the loss of his grandmother “...the musical heart and foundation of my family,” and as a requiem for the devastation caused by the Haitian earthquakes in 2010. Yet the intimacy in his playing and writing is equally as captivating on the beautiful and somber, Forest Walker, or though his arrangement of Coldplay’s What If.
The 9-track album includes two rhythm sections (Aaron Parks, Linda Oh and Kendrick Scott & Sam Harris, Joe Sanders and Justin Brown) as well Jake Saslow on Tenor and guest percussionist Renaldo DeJesus. Dizack also worked along side of composer and producer Charles Schiermeyer to arrange and record a 60-piece orchestra on three of the compositions. End Of An Era is set to release in October of 2012.
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Named by DownBeat Magazine as one of twenty-five “Trumpet Players for the Future”, Philip Dizack is constantly pushing musical exploration and expression to new levels. In 2007, Dizack competed as the youngest semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. Two years prior, he became the youngest winner of the Carmine Caruso international Jazz Trumpet Competition. That same year, Philip released his debut recording as a leader, Beyond a Dream [Fresh Sound Records]. He later toured with his band through Spain and recorded the DVD, Live in Barcelona - Featuring Greg Tardy. Since the release of Beyond a Dream, Philip has been a regular member of Nicholas Payton’s Television Studio Orchestra, Bobby Watson's Sextet, The Revive Da Live Big Band, 9-time Grammy Winning Pianist, Eddie Palmieri's Salsa and Latin Jazz bands and often performs alongside the likes of Wycliffe Gordon, Greg Tardy, Tim Warfield and the Captain Black Big Band led by Orrin Evans.
Philip Dizack, a native of Milwaukee, WI, moved to New York City in 2003, where he attended the Manhattan School of Music on a full tuition scholarship. As a member of the NFAA Stan Getz/Clifford Brown Fellowship All-Stars, Dizack toured the United States, Canada, and Japan. In 2004, he was named third place winner of the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition, winner of the John Coltrane Scholarship, and first place winner of the National Trumpet Competition in 2005.