Live Stream Residency

A 2021 live stream performance by the Chad LB Quartet featuring Chad Lefkowitz-Brown on tenor saxophone, Steven Feifke on piano, Dan Chmielinski on acoustic bass, and Bryan Carter on drums. This extended session covers a wide range of material spanning multiple composers and styles. The program includes a Kurt Weill piece taken at 179 BPM in B with swing feel, a Duke Ellington composition with a Latin feel in F minor at 196 BPM, a Johnny Green ballad in D-flat at a slow 55 BPM, a Herbie Hancock funk blues at 129 BPM in F, a Miles Davis contrafact on Indiana taken at a scorching 280 BPM in A-flat, and a Paul McCartney tune arranged with a rock feel at 70 BPM. Solos are distributed generously across all four members, with Lefkowitz-Brown taking extended solo turns on each piece. Feifke contributes substantial piano solos throughout, while Chmielinski and Carter each take featured spots. The variety of tempos, feels, and keys across this single session demonstrates the quartet's versatility and comfort with repertoire ranging from the Great American Songbook through bebop, post-bop, funk, and pop.