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Shawn Purcell - Oblivity
by Brice Boorman, Chalked Up Reviews
Guitarist and composer Shawn Purcell's Oblivity presents an album statement built on shared melodic and harmonic understanding. The ensemble includes Walt Weiskopf on tenor saxophone, Darden Purcell on voice, Ben Patterson on trombone, Chris Ziemba on piano and Fender Rhodes, Jeff Reed on acoustic bass, and Steve Fidyk on drums and percussion. Each of the tracks devolved with various ensemble configurations. The continuity of the group functions... read more
Brad Wheeler - The Future Was Yesterday
by David Franklin, JazzTimes April 2006
Although John Coltrane was a primary inspiration, Chicago tenorist/sopranoist Brad Wheeler has honed his Coltrane-influenced tone into a thing of beauty all his own. His exquisite diminuendos as the tone evenly fades away demonstrate a control rarely encountered with today's saxophonists. And his sound is smooth and even throughout his instrument's full range, which he uses liberally. Wheeler also possesses a masterful technique with which to... read more
Dawn Clement - Delight
by Michael van Gee, Jazz'N'More (Switzerland)
4-STARS Dawn Clement, previously unknown to me, totally surprised me with her new album as an excellently swinging pianist who, together with the magnificent bassist Buster Williams and the outstanding drummer Matt Wilson, forms a fantastic team. Six instrumentals by the trio form the core of the album, including the wonderfully swinging Thelonious Monk's "Monk's Dream," Buster Williams' "Tokudo," and Julian Priester's "Elmere's... read more
David Friesen and Glen Moore - Bactrian
by Dave Rogers, WTJU - Richmond
The partnership of bass masters Friesen and Moore would seem destined to elicit one of two opposing reactions: (1) two bass players and nothing for variety / melody for half of the recording? Even given the half when one or the other slips over to the piano, that's a awful lot of bass! (2) two of the most inventive and accomplished bassists and we'll get the chance to focus on their individual and combined compositions and interactions - what... read more
Hadley Caliman - Gratitude
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
For his first album as a leader in a couple of decades, Hadley Caliman returns with a bang. Though released by Seattle's Origin label, it's not strictly Northwest jazz, and though containing a couple of players from the California scenes, it's not strictly West Coast jazz. It's something different, tangible, with ties to the classics but explorations well into the new beyond. For someone who's played with everyone from Dexter Gordon to Santana,... read more
Bridge Quartet - Night
by Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
The Bridge Quartet consists of tenor saxophonist Phil Dwyer, pianist Darrell Grant, bassist Tom Wakeling, and drummer Alan Jones: Night is the second volume of their work together over a two day period in 2007, complicated by Dwyer being delayed at the U.S.-Canada border on his way to Portland. There's a bit more energy in this recording than their earlier release, since it is before a live audience. The quartet really stretches out on several... read more
Amit Friedman - Unconditional Love
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
Once upon a time, jazz, an American creation, was confined for the most part within its borders. But that was once upon a time. Today, any barriers that once kept jazz within a prescribed realm have long since vanished, and the music Americans once embraced as their own has flourished around the world, performed with increasing awareness and dexterity by artists who have built upon the patterns created in the land of its birth to weave colorful... read more
Jessica Williams - Songs of Earth
by Britt Robson, JazzTimes
If there were a lifetime achievement award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, this veteran West Coast pianist would have it in her criminally modest trophy case. Her sixth disc for the Origin label supposedly differs from the others for its heavy emphasis on spontaneous composition, with the material culled from live solo performances over the past few years at the Triple Door in Seattle, near her home. But just as Williams has... read more
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