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Tom Collier - Alone in the Studio
by George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
Tom Collier plays vibes, marimba, piano, drums and bass synthesizer all by his lonesome on this mix of standards and originals. He's a one man band on the bouncy take of "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise" and the deftly swinging "Five Brothers" and can create a full bodied funk on his own "Orbital Dance." His vibes can glow and chime on "Little Green Thing" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" while on marimba he sets a nice mood on the... read more
Bobby Rozario - Spellbound
by Mark Griffith, Modern Drummer
This is a very ambitious record and please don't assume that you know what to expect when you see that a guitarist is leading a band with a lot of Latin percussion players. Guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer Bobby Rozario has put together a very special and original project and created some wonderful music. Rozario and Spellbound lean much closer to Mahavishnu than "Black Magic Woman." We all know what Dennis Chambers is capable of, he... read more
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra - The Endless Search
by Jeff Krow, Audiophile Audition
Our last visit with the Seattle Rep Jazz Orchestra was back in 2006, when they recorded the Sacred Music of Duke Ellington. It was an impressive recording and made our "Best of 2006" list. The Seattle Rep has taken the task of recording American jazz classic compositions from our revered jazz masters. They also commission work from those jazz legends still with us to showcase new works. Such is the case with Jimmy Heath, a tenor master of... read more
Dan Dean - Fanfare for the Common Man
by Marty Friedman, WICN, Worcester
So after a forty year career as bassist, composer, producer and recording engineer, what do you do next? Why, you sing the parts to famous orchestral pieces, overdubbing to create alternative chorale-based works - of course!
We have two new CDs from Dan Dean, with a track from each during this show.
In the first hour you'll hear a track from Mr. Dean's Fanfare for the Common Man, taking its title from Aaron Copeland's popular work.... read more
Chris Walden Big Band - Full-On!
by Mark S Tucker, AcousticMusic.com
You can't blame Chris Walden for taking seven years to issue another CD. He's so in demand that the guy barely has time to change socks before flying off to front another gig, score a movie, contribute tracks to a TV series, or arrange for any of a panoply of big names: Paul Anka, Christopher Cross, Diana Krall, Michael Buble, Michael Bolton, Nancy Wilson, etc. With Full On!, the delayed follow-up to 2007's Kurt Marti Suite... read more
Anthony Branker & Word Play - Dialogic
by Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
On his recorded output, Anthony Branker has shown consistent growth as a composer/arranger working with small groups. For this session he is musical director for a quartet featuring several veterans of earlier recordings, including saxophonist Ralph Bowen, bassist Kenny Davis, and drummer Adam Cruz, adding pianist Jim Ridl. Branker's writing style isn't easy to classify, as he fits equally into post-bop and modern creative, while his skills... read more
Jeff Johnson - Near Earth
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
The trio format without a chording instrument (a guitar or keyboard) tends to loosen the atmosphere, giving the music a more fluid feel. Bassist Jeff Johnson, joined by saxophonist Hans Teuber and drummer Tad Britton, achieves a compelling chamber-like fluidity on Near Earth.
Teuber's tenor saxophone approach here has a clean, clear, bracingly cool feel on its interplay with with Johnson's round bass lines and the intricate textures from... read more
Ben Thomas - Triskaidekaphobia
by Adam Greenburg, All Music Guide
An intriguing third release from vibraphonist Ben Thomas, Triskaidekphobia is rather exploratory, bouncing from tone to tone, but performing all with an inventive vibe-clarinet format, more to the combos of Bobby Hutcherson and Eric Dolphy than those of Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton perhaps (more forward-oriented at any rate), but really not even within that vein. Here, the band takes on straightforward bop, post-bop, Brazilian idioms, and a... read more
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