It is rare that four high-profile musicians unite in any context, rarer still that they play the material of an iconic rock band. Gold Sounds is the result of such a collaboration. Featuring the brilliant Downbeat Magazine saxophonist of the year James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut on keys, called a legend by New York magazine, Reginald Veal, the fat-bottom bassman for discerning artists like Wynton Marsalis, and white-hot drummer Ali Jackson, also with Marsalis, oft likened to Art Blakey.

"This is fire-breathing music...that sends the messy spirit of Pavement down roads the rockers could never have imagined...the most thrilling improvised music.”
— NPR, All Things Considered

The goal was to set the tunes of Pavement into a jazz framework. Pavement’s slacker poetry and subverted melodies spawned the most tragically hip and committed cult since the days of the Velvet Underground. 

“We sketched out a skeleton framework...and let the music take us wherever it went…From their music we got a certain sense of freedom, an organic quality, and we used that as a foundation and springboard.”

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