Results for "Larry Johnson"

Larry Johnson

Born: May 15, 1938

Circles

By Larry Johnson

Label: Victoria
Released: 2010
Track listing: Will It Go 'Round in Circles; Do It Again; Blue Sky; Soul Eyes; Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing; Nothing But Blues; Speak Low; My One and Only Love; Body and Soul; The Great Pumpkin Waltz; Warehouse; Black Nile.

Jim Manley: Brass Poison

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 14, 2010

Mythology and its partners--history and literature--are replete with accounts of poisonings of all kinds; romantic, political, and those unfortunately accidental. Most of these tales culminate with unhappy, tragic endings. Someone usually “gets it" in the end. With Brass Poison, star trumpeter Jim Manley shrewdly plays title tongue-in-cheek, and delivers a supremely enjoyable and ...

Larry Johnson: Circles

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 27, 2010

Circles are infinitely symbolic in their geometric design and interpretation--no beginning and no end, directionally ambiguous, enclosing an extended infinite inner dimensional space. In Circles, his first CD as a leader, tenor saxophonist Larry Johnson steps up to deliver a dozen fine selections displaying that he's definitely no musical square. He sounds as if he knows ...