“For just over a year, saxophonist Nate Waters and drummer Bobby Wiens would get together in Nate's basement and play classic bop tunes as a minimal duo. For a winter residency, they added bassist Steve Shepard for weekly trio sessions at Calgary's Workshop Bar. These combined sessions inspired Waters to begin writing contrafacts, a supplanting of new melodies onto the extant chord progressions of classic jazz and songbook standards. Those efforts, along with the addition of guitarist Joel Untinen, culminated in the recording of the Nate Waters Quartet's Fact Contrafact EP. By manipulating the function of something familiar, Nate strives to educate listeners on the inner machinations of bebop while introducing them to his playful and off-kilter compositional and improvisational style.” — http://www.natewaters.ca/jazz

CDs and digital copies of Fact Contrafact can be purchased here.