Big Neighborhood
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| Studio album by Mike Stern | ||||
| Released | August 11, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | New York City, Austin, Texas, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Jazz, jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 68:49 | |||
| Label | Heads Up International | |||
| Producer | Jim Beard | |||
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Big Neighborhood is the fourteenth solo studio album by jazz guitarist Mike Stern. The 2009 release was produced by Jim Beard and released by Heads Up International. It debuted at number five on the Billboard Top Traditional Jazz Albums chart and was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Despite the chart success and Grammy nomination not all critics praised the release.
Music is like a big neighborhood - a place where anything and everything can happen. You can find all kinds of things in a big neighborhood - all kinds of different people, all kinds of different ideas and perspectives, and of course, all kinds of different sounds.
Big Neighborhood was Stern's second release on Heads Up, a follow up to 2006's Who Let the Cats Out?. Most of the album was recorded in New York City, but Stern also traveled with a rhythm section to Austin, Texas to record with guitarist Eric Johnson, and then to Los Angeles to record with guitarist Steve Vai and drummer Dave Weckl. Vai played guitar on the title track and sitar on "Moroccan Roll".
The album was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album but lost to the Joe Zawinul album 75. This was Stern's sixth nomination in this category. The other nominees were Urbanus by Stefon Harris, Sounding Point by Julian Lage, and At World's Edge by Philippe Saisse.
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