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Here is my press release, written beautifully by David R. Adler, and it'll tell you about what is coming this year. 9 records covering many years and many genres. One per month all this year!

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GUITARIST/VOCALIST DOUG WAMBLE TO UNVEIL “9 FOR ’19”
NINE ALBUMS OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, ONE RELEASE PER MONTH

Music that spans Wamble’s wide-ranging career as a jazz guitarist/composer and a blues and pop singer-songwriter.
All albums releasing on Bandcamp, beginning April 5, 2019, and Doug is offering a subscription through Bandcamp
Hailed by The New Yorker as “a one-man compendium of avant Americana,” guitarist/vocalist Doug Wamble is marking 2019 as a year to take stock of his widely varied accomplishments across some 20 years. Every month beginning in April, the Memphis native will roll out a new item from his personal vault. Eschewing the major streaming services, he will offer free streaming via Bandcamp, with $1 hi-res downloads plus a subscription option for higher-level contributors.
From the late ’90s onward, Wamble documented an impressive array of projects live and in the studio, ranging from polished jazz ensemble arrangements to raw blues to intimate pop songs of love, vulnerability and upheaval; from the first release in the series, a Jazz at Lincoln Center commission for jazz quartet plus tap dancer (The Traveler: Live in New York City), to a restaurant gig, all standards, thrillingly reminiscent of Ahmad Jamal’s spacious trio sound but with guitar (Three Blue Martinis). This wealth of material sheds light on Wamble as an artist at home in different expressive worlds: a master of blues and slide guitar as well as bebop and modern jazz, a singer as steeped in American roots as he is in contemporary pop production and sound.
In addition to his impact as a recording artist, Wamble is a Jazz Guitar and Ensemble instructor at the Juilliard School of Music; musical director for singer- songwriter Morgan James; and composer for the Ken Burns documentaries Prohibition, The War and Vietnam. He also composed music for Burns’ The Central Park Five, a collaboration with daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon; and a forthcoming piece about racism and public housing in Atlanta during the late 20th century. Wamble has also worked with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson, Madeleine Peyroux, Natalie Merchant, Erik Friedlander, Steven Bernstein, Courtney Love, Jon Batiste, Norah Jones and a host of other influential artists across genres.
Among the revelatory offerings in Wamble’s “9 for ’19” rollout is The Road to the Road, the first document of the band that went on to record Country Libations and Bluestate for the Marsalis Music label in the early to mid ’00s. These studio and live tracks with drummer Peter Miles, bassist Jeff Hanley and pianist Roy Dunlap capture a vivid rapport that resurfaced on Wamble’s first non-jazz

release, Doug Wamble, for E1 in 2010. (Wamble went on to recommend Dunlap and Hanley for Morgan James’ band as well.)
Wamble’s 2012 release Fast As Years, Slow As Days, a chronicle of momentous and sometimes wrenching personal and professional change, will also appear in the 2019 rollout package as a Deluxe Edition, with bonus tracks and demos. Other rarities from Wamble’s vault include For Anew, Long and Full of Bends, Nothing Is Over and Part Time Luck, Full Time Blues, replete with songs in various formats from Wamble’s “Song Club” period.
The brainchild of dear friend and fellow guitarist Adam Levy, Song Club was a weekly challenge in which a song title was sent out to selected songwriters, with the directive that each writer would then use the title as a lyric in a new song. From 2011-2012 Wamble was the only writer who met the challenge for 52 straight weeks. These songs of heartache and transformation find Wamble deeply immersed in his craft, honing an artistic identity like no other, from the searing solo-acoustic intimacy of “For Anew” to the modern electronic pop touches of “Third Degree.”
Then comes an item like Salad Days, Bodega Haze, revealing the depth of Wamble’s imagination in a jazz context on “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors,” among other striking and rare quartet instrumentals, or the ravishing, quasi- Ellingtonian arrangement of “Sleepytime” performed in a previously unheard professional demo with a Marsalis-esque octet. Wamble’s integration of slide guitar and other vernacular elements in such modern jazz settings creates a beguiling old-yet-new juxtaposition, true to the spirit of the music itself. His body of work, in all its aesthetic range and expressive capacity, can now be heard in its fullest cataloguing to date.
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Doug Wamble’s “9 for ’19” monthly archival releases:
April 5 The Traveler: Live in New York City May 3 For Anew
June 7 Three Blue Martinis
July 5 The Road to the Road
August 2 Long and Full of Bends
September 6 Nothing Is Over
October 4 Part Time Luck, Full Time Blues
November 1 Salad Days, Bodega Haze
December 6 Fast As Years, Slow As Days (Deluxe Edition)