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Bobby Broom - Song And Dance
by Chris M. Slawecki, All About Jazz
"Survey with the Strings On Top"
Beg your pardon for the atrocious pun, but it sort of introduces this survey of jazz and blues releases instrumented by bass and guitar players.
Chicago native Bobby Broom has been playing guitar since he was about eleven. He decided to become a professional musician after hearing guitarist George Benson kick ass throughout Bad Benson, and was invited on tour by colossal saxophonist Sonny Rollins when Broom... read more
Scenes - Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival
by Paul Rauch, Earshot Jazz
The Northwest trio/quartet Scenes dates back twelve years or so prior to their 2001 album debut. Over the years, the band became a trio featuring guitarist John Stowell, bassist Jeff Johnson, and drummer John Bishop due to injuries that forced tenor saxophonist Rick Mandyck into a fourteen-year hiatus from playing the saxophone.
Mandyck returned to the band's recordings and live performances in 2019, culminating in the Origin Records release... read more
Mark Taylor with RadioAction - After Hours
by Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
Working with fellow Origin labelmates, alto/soprano saxophonist Mark Taylor delivers his maiden album, featuring four compositions written by him or by the piano player on the session, Whitney Ashe. The remaining four are works similarly fashioned out of the modern jazz mold. Taylor is one of those younger jazz players who perceives this musical genre has something more than dazzling technique, improvisations on standard pop material, or... read more
Lynn Bush with New Stories - Still Life
by Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
The Northwest U.S. in general, and Seattle in particular, simply teems with outstanding jazz artists. Now comes vocalist Lynn Bush with her warm, contemporary approach to a play list of mostly familiar material. Bush and her confreres have turned out an album in which they share, in almost equal parts, the time allocated for this album to make each song their own. Marc Seales on piano, when relieved of the responsibility of providing understated... read more
Clay Giberson - Spaceton's Approach
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz.com
There's much to be said for holding a band together over the course of years and performances and album/CD releases, honing the familiarity, comfort level and the intricacies of interplay. Think of the two great Miles Davis Quintets, or Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio.
There's also a lot to be said for the one-off affairs, the freshness and spontaneity and energy of a group of like-minded artists getting together for a single... read more
Marius Nordal - Boomer Jazz
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Onetime big-band composer Marius Nordal saw a niche unfilled in jazz -- while many contemporary performers put in time with the standards of the American Songbook (Cole Porter, Rodgers, Hart, Hammerstein, etc), there is relatively little attention given to slightly newer pieces of popular music, even those taken as standards of the form. With the problem thus defined, Nordal set out to make contemporary jazz recordings of some of the classics of... read more
Dmitri Matheny - Cascadia
by Robert Rusch, Papatamus
DMITRI MATHENY [flg] has lead a few sessions since he began recording in the late 1980's. CASCADIA [Origin Records 82849] is his latest quintet date featuring Charles McNeal [ts/ss] who blends wonderfully with Matheny on a mixture of fine originals and one jazz standard.... read more
Trio Linguae - Kevin Woods / John Stowell / Miles Black - Signals
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
The unorthodox trio of Kevin Woods on trumpet and flugelhorn, pianist Miles Black and John Stowell on steel, nylon and fretless baritone guitars makes for playful work of originals and some jazz standards. Woods and Stowell dance around "I Hear A Rhapsody" with Black waxing eloquence on Wayne Shorter's "Virgo". The three play peek-a-boo on Bill Evans' "Peris-Scope" and are languid for Jobim's "Inutil Paisagem." Most lyrical is Black's romantic... read more
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