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John Lang

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Bassist John Lang has a diverse background in performance, arranging and composition. John has toured the United States, South America and Europe with dozens of exceptional performers. New York City audiences know John’s work on upright, backing such artists as Larry Ham, Tardo Hammer and Michael Moore in duo settings. In the fall of 2019 John was named House Bassist for the River Spirit Festival held in Hastings-On Hudson, playing for a wide range of artists. Mr. Lang is a founding and current member of the new American jazz powerhouse: The Kolotov Mocktails whose debut CD “Ivy Hall” is enjoying a warm review on radio stations across the United States

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Earotica

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Poetry in Commotion; January; Piano Intro; In My Fallitude; Flotando; Blues for Faddis; Sight Unseen; Payable in Hats; Schoolin’; The St. Vitus Dance; So You Say; Trepidation.

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Article: Album Review

John Lang: Earotica

Read "Earotica" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There's something special about a nonet: small enough to have its own personality, yet large enough to sound at times akin to a full-size big band. Bassist John Lang leads a first-class nonet on Earotica, his fourth album as leader. Having given Lang's last disc a rather lukewarm appraisal almost two years ago, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bill Evans, Nicholas Payton, Billie Holiday & Hannah Gill

Read "Bill Evans, Nicholas Payton, Billie Holiday & Hannah Gill" reviewed by Joe Dimino


From rising star Canadian vocalist Hannah Gill, we begin the 824th Episode of Neon Jazz with music from her release Everybody Loves a Love quicklly followed by one if her musicial influences, Billie Holiday. We also get a dose of new music from Pablo Masis, Nicholas Payton and John Lang. In between, we hear tunes from ...

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Now Ear This

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Town of Tiny Rooms; Scarborough Cha; Trioation; Without Doubt; Addendum; Pusherman; On^ (Four on Six); Well Done; The Night Watch; Sis Boom Bah; Won by One.

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Ivy Hall

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Between the Ranges; Dancing on the Wall; Mr. Pants Pants; A Visit to the Zoo; Acoustic Alchemy; Coming to an Alley Near You; The Fuzz; Raw Eel Sheets; The Crack of Noon; Time Ebbing.

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Article: Album Review

Kolotov Mocktails: Ivy Hall

Read "Ivy Hall" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Setting aside the issue of genres (jazz, folk, Americana, funk, R&B, country, whatever), the question becomes: on their debut album, Ivy Hall, does the Tennessee-based and curiously named quartet, Kolotov Mocktails, deliver the goods? And the answer has to be yes, they do. This leads to a second question: is what they are doing jazz? And ...

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Article: Album Review

John Lang: Now Ear This

Read "Now Ear This" reviewed by Jack Bowers


For what it is, bassist John Lang's fourth album, Now Ear This, is quite well done. For jazz fans, the dilemma lies there, precisely in what it is--a series of eleven rock/fusion themes, nine written by Lang, which would be right at home on a smooth jazz/easy listening radio station, for example, but whose jazz content ...

Album

Lend Me Your Ears

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009


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