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Anthony Branker & Imagine - What Place Can Be for Us?
by Angelo Leonardi, All About Jazz (Italy)
4 1/2 STARS The adventurous post-bop of the composer Anthony Branker, well expressed by the album Beauty Within by the Imagine quintet, finds new and more complex developments in this What Place Can Be for Us?. The group confirms the guitarist Pete McCann and the couple Fabian Almazan and Linda May Han Oh, expanding to a medium size band with some of the greatest young instrumentalists in New York: the trumpeter Philip Dizack, the... read more
Benjamin Boone - Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The alto-sax extraordinaire Benjamin Boone is in the company of some fine musicians for these colorful and dynamic 9 tracks.
"On The Banks Of The Shannon" starts the listen with Dan Bodwell's playful bass plucking before Rodridgo Dalla's dreamy percussion enters alongside Boone's elegant sax, and the title track follows with a lively spirit that carries an infectious energy thanks to James Miley's swift keys and Rory Murphy's electric... read more
Trio East - Best Bets
by Thomas R. Erdmann, www.jazzreview.com
If not for Origin Records, questing ensembles, such as Trio East, would not be able to find label homes. Origin continues their fine tradition of focusing on less well known, to general jazz public audiences, musicians who want to work in free and more open musical environments. This is certainly the case here.
Trio East is made up of three music professors from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. While each of the three are more... read more
Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters - Abstract Quantities
by Rotcod Zzaj, Improvijazzation Nation
If solid & pure jazz is what you're after, you won't find any better than this band featuring Chad's trumpet and Bram's great keyboards (along with bass from Piet Verbist and drums from John Bishop) anywhere on the globe. This is their third release... my first listen, but on tunes like the 5:35 "Hesitation", you'll hear just how sensitive the players are to each other... the recording is pure and clean, and if you listen with your headphones... read more
Jared Hall - Influences
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
This album by trumpeter Jared Hall is a fun one in that you get to guess by the tone and styles (not to mention the titles) of each song which fellow horn man he's giving tribute to. Along with Tal Cohen/p, Michael Glynn/b and John Bishop/p, he composes pieces with a tip of the cap to artists like Brian Lynch ("Professor B.L.) and Wallace Roney ("One For Wallace") with ideas of blue and lyricism respectively. The clever stop start of "Song For... read more
Todd Bishop - Little Played Little Bird
by Rebecca Ruth, WYCE Music Journal
Accomplished photographer, landscape oils painter and drummer, Todd Bishop, may be familiar to you because of his group, Pop Art 4, which is dedicated to exploring commercial music of the 60s and 70s. (Such as Todd Bishop Pop Art 4: 69 Annee Erotique: Music of Serge Gainsbourg.) Except for the classic "Lonely Woman", you've likely not heard most of the songs on Little Played Little Bird. That's because band leader,... read more
Hal Galper - Live at the Berlin Philharmonic, 1977
by Cedric Hendrix, Cirdec Songs
This record can really be summed up in two words: IN-SANE!!! Not only is Hal Galper an amazing pianist with a raw aggressive tone one might compare to Keith Jarrett, but his inclusion of the legendary Brecker brothers (Randy on trumpet and flugelhorn and Michael on tenor sax) was nothing short of inspired. Everyone is given an equal chance to shine, and no one wastes his opportunity. Bassist Wayne Dockery and drummer Bob Moses are equally rock... read more
Don Lanphere with New Stories - Home At Last
by Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
AMG EXPERT REVIEW: The Seattle-based Origin label continues its noble venture to bring as many of the performers from the Northwest's bustling, burgeoning jazz scene to a wider audience. This time the label has teamed erstwhile soprano/tenor saxophone player Don Lanphere with one of the area's more active groups, New Stories. Made up of Marc Seales, Doug Miller, and John Bishop , the trio gives its utmost support to Lanphere on a program of jazz... read more
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