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East Coast Cool

Label: OmniTone
Released: 2006
Track listing: Deadline, A Time to Go, Brothr Frank, Bernie's tune, Duet #1, Delusions, Wanwood, Internal Hurdles, Duet #2, Waltz Helios, Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, GAB

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The best jazz is always at least a bit subversive--it does the unexpected, perhaps even setting the listener up for something, only to slap him about it later. Jazz can be the epitome of unpredictability and subversion when musicians play around the melody or forego it altogether, when they fracture the harmony and stretch it to ...

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Le magie sonore che scaturirono dal quartetto pianoless di Gerry Mulligan e Chet Baker in una stagione tanto breve quanto intensa, hanno lasciato il segno in più di una generazione di appassionati. John McNeil, trombettista e compositore, già a fianco del grande baritonista e membro di varie orchestre tributo, evita accuratamente una rilettura filologica di quella ...

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Brother Frank

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Label: OmniTone
Released: 2005
Duration: 05:17

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan


Trumpeter/composer John McNeil is after a “third stream of sorts with East Coast Cool. His avowed purpose is to meld the cool jazz feel of the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker quartet (which featured baritone sax and trumpet, but no piano) with the more decentralized approach and edge of modern free jazz. While it's impossible to know how ...

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


John McNeil may have stumbled onto something worthwhile here. Of late, the trumpeter/leader/composer has been recording for OmniTone, a Brooklyn-based label which specializes in the edgy music that one might encounter in many of New York's downtown jazz clubs. McNeil goes back some time and has been part of the jazz scene there since the 1970s, ...

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by Troy Collins


On East Coast Cool, trumpeter John McNeil set out to reinterpret the classic West Coast cool jazz sound of Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker's piano-less quartets. McNeil's career stretches back almost three decades, playing alongside Horace Silver, Slide Hampton, and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, as well as Mulligan himself. As a member of Gerry Mulligan's ...

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The music called “West Coast Cool" was well-represented by the mid-fifties Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker Quartet, with Mulligan on the baritone saxophone and Baker on trumpet, backed by bass and drums. Working without a chording instrument--piano or guitar--was quite innovative at the time. The sound, in contrast to the sharper-edged bop of the day, had a loose, ...

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John McNeil: East Coast Cool

Read "East Coast Cool" reviewed by Jim Santella


Celebrating the piano-less quartet sound that Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker brought us over 40 years ago, trumpeter John McNeil reflects on their individual spirit with a free jazz interpretation of his own. As he applies Mulligan's arranging principles to free music, his quartet introduces a unique sound that remains both cool and intense. McNeil, 57, ...

Album

East Coast Cool

Label: OmniTone
Released: 2005
Track listing: Deadline; A Time to Go; Brother Frank; Bernie


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