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Swing Team
By Astrid Cowan
Label: Astron Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Thursday Night at Pasquales; I
Astrid Cowan: Swing Team
by Jack Bowers
I hope Astrid Cowan will forgive me for saying she plays piano like a man. The truth is, she does, employing a percussive, two–fisted approach that reminds one of McCoy Tyner, the late Gene Harris, Benny Green and other fiery, blues–based modernists. Not much is said on Swing Team about her background, only that she was ...
Songs of Alan Broadbent
By Ron Berman
Label: Astron Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: This One's for Bud; Better Days; Every Time I Think of You; Waiting for Charlie; Don't Ask Why; Song of Home; Another Time; The Long Goodbye; Ode to the Road; Away from You; Continuity; Away from You
Summit
By Astrid Cowan
Label: Astron Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The News Is Blues; What Is This Thing Called Love; Lullaby; Beach Comber
Astrid Cowan: Summit
by Jack Bowers
This is a moderately pleasant hour or so of easygoing small–group Jazz, but those are shark–infested waters into which pianist Astrid Cowan and her colleagues are diving, and I doubt that pleasant is enough to ensure their survival. Truth is, Summit doesn’t swing nearly as hard or as often as Cowan’s earlier release, Swing Team (Astron ...
Ron Berman: Songs of Alan Broadbent
by Dave Nathan
West coast guitarist Ron Berman has taken on the daunting task of an album devoted entirely to the music of a single composer played by unaccompanied guitar. Alan Broadbent is well known for his piano work, orchestrations and arrangements. He won a Grammy for his arranging work in 2000. But his work as a composer has ...
Astrid Cowan: Swing Team
by Jack Bowers
What we know for certain is that Astrid Cowan was born in Detroit, studied piano for some time in San Francisco, now lives in the Los Angeles area, and is an accomplished mainstream player whose virile two–handed technique and propensity to swing at any speed are remindful of McCoy Tyner, Gene Harris and other modernists from ...
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