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Four by Six

Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Affirmation - 6:15: 02. For Calle Picota - 6:52; 03. For Max - 6:09; 04. Bandolim - 9:04; 05. Strange Street - 7:02; 06. A Ballad For MV - 5:34; 07. Relative Obscurity - 7:16; 08. For Miles - 7:39.

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Gregg August: Four by Six

Read "Four by Six" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Fattosi apprezzare e conoscere come componente del trio di JD Allen, il contrabbassista Gregg August porta avanti dal 2005 un percorso da leader, iniziato nel 2005 con Late August e proseguito con One Peace del 2007 e l'attuale Four by Six, inciso nell'estate 2011. Se i primi due lo vedevano a capo di sestetti, il titolo ...

Album

One Peace

Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Handto Mouth; 02. Nastissimo; 03. One For Louis; 04. Modal Tune; 05. Contradiction; 06. Sixth Finger; 07. In Dedication; 08. Change Of Course; 09. Crescent Mood; 10. Cascading. Tutte le composizioni sono di G. August.

Album

One Peace

Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Handto Mouth; Nastissimo; One for Louis; Modal Tune; Contradiction; Sixth Finger; In Dedication; Change of Course; Crescent Mood; Cascading.

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Gregg August Sextet: One Peace

Read "One Peace" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Hardbop e latin jazz. Sono i punti cardinali di questo secondo CD firmato da Gregg August, esponente di punta del jazz newyorkese contemporaneo. Dieci sono le tracce di questo bel lavoro, che altro non fa che confermare la completa cifra artistica del Nostro, peraltro brillante strumentista ed arrangiatore. Ancora una volta è la formula del sestetto ...

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Gregg August Sextet: One Peace

Read "One Peace" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


When last heard from, Gregg August's debut, Late August (Iacuessa, 2005), left listeners with a smile for the bassist/composer's bipolar emphasis on Latin and hard bop interests. One Peace indicates a new direction for August. While Late August took advantage of a number of high profile guest musicians including saxophonist Frank Wess ...

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Gregg August Sextet: One Peace

Read "One Peace" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


This is the second release by classical conservatory-trained New York-based bassist and composer Gregg August, an Assistant Bass Principal of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and a frequent collaborator with experimental composers collective Bang on a Can. One Peace is a more straight-ahead jazz showcase than August's Latin-flavored debut, Late August (Iacuessa Records, 2005). This time August worked ...

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Gregg August Sextet: One Peace

Read "One Peace" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Bassist Gregg August is a dynamic and vastly underrated arranger and composer. On One Peace he enhances a hard bop template with complex chord structures, layering of inimitable horn arrangements and echoes from other musical genres. On “Nastissimo for example, trumpeter John Bailey, altoist Myron Walden and tenor man Stacy Dillard play almost ...

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Gregg August: Late August

Read "Late August" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Bassist Gregg August's pedigree is hard bop, and his trademark compositions have heads that examine every harmonic and melodic possibility and are almost stories unto themselves. His sextet recently played a lively set at New York's Fat Cat, and a few of the tunes they performed are featured on August's new album, the somewhat self-titled Late ...

Album

Late August

Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Sweet Maladie; Four Two K; M's Blues; Treatments in Darknesds; Los Dos Cotos; Melody in Black and Grey; Eulogy; Deceptions; Work in Progress.


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