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Edgar Van Asselt Quartet and Quintet: A Smooth Journey

Read "A Smooth Journey" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Pianist Edgar van Asselt teams his fine trio with tenor saxophonist David Schnitter and trumpet player Nico Schepers for A Smooth Journey, an album that both swings hard and lovingly embraces. Schnitter is perhaps best known for his stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the '70s and as a hard bopper who can carry a session on his own. Here, however he is wonderfully immersed in these van Asselt originals as he converses with the catchy hooks and pairs ...

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Dave Schnitter and Edgar van Asselt: Penpals

Read "Penpals" reviewed by Samuel Chell


In the late 1970's the Newport Jazz Festival programmed a Carnegie Hall concert featuring the groups of both Art Blakey and Horace Silver along with some all-star alumni guests. The impression of that concert that lingers with me to this day is the passionate and fiery if not show-stopping performance of Blakey's tenor man, David Schnitter. Had the title “Little Giant" not already been bestowed upon Johnny Griffin to distinguish him from “long, tall" Dexter Gordon, it might just as ...


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