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John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawčaptak Quartet - Violin Memory
by Georg Modestin, Jazz 'N' More (Switzerland)
5-STARS They have known each other for a long time, the American guitarist John Stowell and his compatriot Dave Glenn, the latter a trombonist. The two musicians are no longer the youngest, Stowell was born in 1950, Glenn in 1951, and both can look back on long careers on stage and in the classroom. Over the years they have repeatedly come together as a duo, a duo with a highly unusual line-up that has developed a very personal, chamber... read more
Tad Britton - Black Hills
by Ric Bang, The Davis Enterprise, Thursday Nov.1
This tasty trio is another part of the impressive jazz scene that has developed in the Pacific Northwest during the past several years.
Marc Seales is the pianist, Jeff Johnson plays bass and Tad Britton - identified as the leader - handles the drums. Seales and Johnson have been key artists on dozens of albums that have been released from this region during the past few years, and Britton is a perfect drummer for this kind of group.
Seales,... read more
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio - Where the Light Falls
by Don Lerman, Cadence
Bassist/composer David Friesen's recent 2-CD volume contains almost two hours of consistently excellent music. The music is taken from three sources, a studio session (in Germany) and two live performances (in Tempe and Portland). Ten of the nineteen total selections were done by Friesen's "Circle 3 Trio" from the studio session and the Portland concert, while special guest Larry Koonse joined the trio on guitar for the nine selections... read more
Brad Goode - The Unknown
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Trumpeter Brad Goode brings together Jeff Jenkins/keys, Seth Lewis/eb and Paa Kow/dr for rich and deeply grooved originals, with a few clever covers. Goode's horn glistens with Jenkins on a sensitive read of Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" while a synthy solo sets the mood for Kow to dig in on Caetano Veloso's "Joia". Lewis is a presence throughout, giving a rich line for "The Windmills of Your Mind" and laying down a funky white boy music mood for... read more
Rich Thompson - Who Do You Have to Know?
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The drummer Rich Thompson has an impressive resume and he adds to that body of work here with 9 tunes that welcome Corey Christiansen, Bobby Floyd and Peter Chwazik to the fusion formula.
The title track starts the listen with Floyd's atmospheric organ and Thompson's agile drumming in the flowing, worldly jazz climate, and "Street Cred" follows with a playful and melodic spirit that's full of Christiansen's flowing guitar work.
Halfway... read more
Scenes - Rinnova
by Kyle O'Brien, Oregon Jazz Scene
John Stowell, Jeff Johnson and John Bishop have been playing together as Scenes for nearly a decade, and the group continues to evolve and develop as a trio rather than a collection of players. It's not about showcasing one instrument or even one sound. Their work is reminiscent of the fusion of the '70s and early '80s, like that done by Mike Stern or John Abercrombie, though it is definitely of the now. Stowell's guitar approach is softer... read more
Hugo Fernandez New Grounds Quartet - Ozean
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
An innovative German cool school guitarist whose idea of cool school is laid back Wes rather than standard ECM, he comes in with a solid set of jazz for the mind that any fan of sitting down jazz will recognize as top shelf. Well played and well planned, this is certainly a guitar player of note leading the... read more
Big Neighborhood - 11:11
by Dick Crockett, Bopndicks 20 Picks Nov 2006
A quartet of alto saxophone, guitar, bass and drum. Simple yet more complex for this band plays big. Chris Fagan 's saxophone sings like a Paul Desmond in Toronto, a clear fall evening on lake Ontario. Then there's Dave White's acoustic guitar riffs like Charlie Christian in odd characters as the rhythmic double times a pace or two in contrapuntal harmony with a groove Messianic! There's proportional jamming as in the "The Lake," an R&B... read more
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