LITTLE JACK MELODY AND HIS DIMINISHED TRIAD MAKE THEIR DEBUT IN DENTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2012,
DAN'S SILVERLEAF, 10:15 SHOWTIME, OHYEAH! P.S.REDUX,
ON THE RE-PRESSING OF LJM'S LIVE ONE, NOISE AND SMOKE, BRINGING ALL 4 CDS TO ACTIVE DUTY!

Denton, TX 1/2/12 - So Jim, the thing of it is is that Little Jack Melody sans his Young Turks, but plus his Diminished Triad will be suddenly reaching out to the world, via a last-minute live gig at Dan's Silverleaf, right here in Denton. Last minute, yes, and as necessity is the mother of Diminished Triads, to wit, now follow me here:

Little Jack Melody- electric bass, singing, raconteuring
Brad Williams- piano bonapropisms
Arjuna Contreras- drum kit and iPhone

They said it's never been tried. They said it was doomed to fail. They said the ice was already melting at an advanced clip. They said there wasn't enough time to pull it all together. They said a 28" kick drum w/ a light bulb inside was tres gauche and supersized. They said harmonium had already supplanted the piano in the public imagination as the keyboard of choice for all time- why go back now? They said electric bass was imprudent, capricious and "trad." They said lyrics were meant to be mumbled, mediocre and inarticulate. Perhaps they were wrong.

So the hell of it is is that we're doing it. Yes, this is a nearly last-minute show. Yes, this is an experiment that's long overdue. Can the scrappy LJM oeuvre withstand the glare of scrutiny, stripped down to its skeletal musical skivvies, comprising 88 keys of harmonic information, basement foundation tones, essentially subdivided percussive mandates, and intoned verbiage? The answer is out there. The prospects are good.

Brad Williams is a sine qua non arbiter of musical decency, a pianist of rare wit, taste and humanism. He does the right thing consistently. Arjuna Contreras is a find, that dream drummer who can seemingly do it all—there's no genre with which he's uncomfortable, and he speaks all musical tongues with native fluency. These two, the backbone legs of the Diminished Triad, bring astonishing expertise to the aural flesh-out of the LJM songbook, and this gig, the first of its kind, is a rare opportunity to hear the works in their less-is-more iconic splendor.

The gig at Dan's promises to be an intimate evening of smoke-free entertainment, easy on the ears, easy on the pocketbook, with a sense of interactive tete-a-tete that's rarely available. And really, Jim, the thing of it is is, you don't want to miss out.

LJM CDs will be available at reduced prices, perfect to offset the severe PTSD disappointments that characterize your Christmas haul—the socks you didn't want, the books you already had and already couldn't fight your way through, the sweater that you'd never in 1000 years be caught dead in, the gizmos and gadgets that are already out-of-date, these 7 long days after Christmas. But LJM CDs are that balm in Gilead you'd dreamed of, hungered for, those pearls beyond price that always seemed to be just out of reach. But no more, my friend, no more. They'll be on sale, and as close as the LJM and his Diminished Triad gig at Dan's in Denton, Saturday night, January 7. At 10:15 p.m. Thank you, and thanks again. www.danssilverleaf.com

PS-- Don't forget again that the fourth CD in the LJM canon, Noise and Smoke, long too long out of print, is back in action, re-pressed and ready to go to good homes once again. It's back, thanks to an anonymous great soul who took it upon himself to bite the bullet and finance this re-pressing venture.

Originally released in 2000, the CD was recorded live at the original Dan's Bar in Denton, with the personnel being Mr. Williams on keyboards, Jeff Novack on largemouth bass, Jacob Duncan on reeds, and Chris Michael on drums. A wonderful document of a caught-in-the- line-of-fire LJM and YT night—required listening.

Uh-oh, gotta go,
Rockford's on,
LITTLE JACK MELODY
Denton, TX