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Canyon

Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: Canyon, Ansel's Easel, Heart of the Matter, Same Time, Same Place, Roc and a Soft Place, Spin, In So Many Words, You and the Night and the Music, Stardust

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Mike Holober: Canyon

Read "Canyon" reviewed by John Kelman


With a strong supporting cast, New York pianist Mike Holober's Canyon delivers a fine first effort of modern post-bop material. Producer Fred Hersch takes Holober, a busy sideman on the New York scene, and places him in the spotlight, garnering the artist broader recognition. Holober is a lyrical pianist coming from the Evans/Jarrett/Jamal tradition, ...

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Mike Holober: Canyon

Read "Canyon" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Mike Holober, pianist and composer of most of these songs, is the nominal leader of this combo. However, the bulk of the melody chores are handed to saxophonist Tim Ries. Herein lies the difference. Ries, a veteran New York session player and recording artist with three releases under his own name, plays both soprano and tenor ...

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Mike Holober: Canyon

Read "Canyon" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist/composer Mike Holober's songs brim with shifting textures and moods, like the color changes wrought by the inexorbably-shifting angles of sunlight playing upon the striations of a canyon wall. Holober spends free time hiking and climbing, and he wrote the title tune for Canyon after a trip to Utah's Paria Canyon, an experience that inspired a ...


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