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Nate LePine

Nate LePine has been an active musician in Chicago since 1991. He has toured internationally with various groups including NRG Ensemble, Liquid Soul, Indoor/Outdoor, Jive Council, Manishevitz, Smog, Sister Machine Gun, to name afew.

He has studied with Mark Colby, Ari Brown, Pete Ballin and Larry Novak.

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Album Review

Quin Kirchner: The Shadows and The Light

Read "The Shadows and The Light" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam war film, Apocalypse Now, was released in 1979. After sitting for 2 and ½ hours, a viewer might have hoped for theater management to stand at the exits to hand out pamphlets explaining what had just gone down. The conflict had ended 4 years prior, and most war movies, pre- Vietnam, were straight-forward, America-saves-the-world affairs. Goodnight. In between a surf crazed Robert Duval, Playboy Bunnies, and the insane Colonel Kurtz played by Marlon Brando, the movie ...

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Quin Kirchner: The Shadows and The Light

Read "The Shadows and The Light" reviewed by Kevin Press


Add Chicago's Quin Kirchner to the growing list of young jazz artists who've dropped impressive multi-disc releases in recent years. It has become a kind of rite of passage for a new breed of heavy hitters, these double-and triple-album sets. They are not vanity projects. Not the good ones, anyway. They come from deep pools of creativity. The kind a very few young artists have accessible to them in the early prime of their careers. Kirchner's follow-up to ...

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Nate LePine: Quartet: Vortices

Read "Quartet: Vortices" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il tenorsassofonista chicagoano Nate Lepine, una discografia abbastanza sconfinata (anche per i generi toccati) a partire dai tardi anni Novanta, giunge solo ora all'esordio a proprio nome (registrazioni dell'ottobre 2014). Il terreno è quello di un jazz di derivazione post-bop, però generosamente risciacquato a fonti stilisticamente posteriori. Si avverte chiaramente, in altre parole, che di qui è passato anche un certo Ornette Coleman e non poco del jazz nato su quei presupposti. Il clima è vivo, con ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Shadows and The...

Astral Spirits
2020

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Quartet: Vortices

ears&eyes Records
2017

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