A jazz primer of sorts. A jazz amalgam of sorts. Certainly a jazz archive. Steeped in history and rhythm, The Black Bottom is a vision of jazz through the eyes of a jazz songwriter, a composer and arranger. Critically acclaimed songwriter, Theo Czuk, has written in every musical genre but this album marks Theo’s first effort wholly dedicated to the craft of the jazz song and the jazz composition. Complemented with a 12-page booklet and chock-full of talented solo artists on a menagerie of instruments, The Black Bottom is an important survey for the jazz enthusiast, jazz students and all purveyors of the jazz medium. Although The Black Bottom is saturated with guest solo artists, make no mistake, this CD is about the jazz song and the jazz composition by a scholar of this craft; the crucial underpinning of the jazz mode in the jazz modes. The Black Bottom comes from an artist; a jazz writer who has lived the part and has dissected jazz in its manifold manifestations and tallied the score. The Score. The Black Bottom is “… a streetcar ride to a raucous roadhouse on the outskirts of jazz.” Beethoven Jones; jazz bassist. Enjoy the ride … Theo Czuk: Critically Acclaimed Songwriter Award Winning novelist. Full bio at: www.tedczuk.com