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Andy Middleton: The European Quartet Live
by Michael P. Gladstone
The last time that saxophonist Andy Middleton was heard from he was providing a pro-environmental message on Re-Inventing The World, (Intuition, 2003) with such titles as “Three Mile Island," “Atlas Shrugged" and “At The Foot of The Hill." Middleton's most recent outing, The European Quartet Live (Q-Rious music, 2008), seems to have shifted gears with only one environmental warning ("Up The River").
A lot has occurred in Middleton's life since 2003. He is now living in Austria where ...
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by Jerry D'Souza
Andy Middleton is an intense saxophonist. He focuses on the core of the melody and then extrapolates it through its musicality and in the freer inventions of his imagination. Middleton who now lives in Vienna, has picked a new working band. They help forge interesting vignettes, with pianist Tino Derado bringing in his own tasteful expressions to blood the music even more.
Middleton takes his compositions, as well as the two that stem from traditional sources, on lengthy ...
read moreDominic Miller: First Touch
by Jim Santella
Employing fingerstyle guitar and picked melodies, the smooth jazz album First Touch represents Dominic Miller's first session as a leader. No stranger to the recording industry, the guitarist has worked with such notables as Sting, Phil Collins, and Tina Turner. This 1995 debut album features his overdubbed guitars with additional support on several tracks provided by guests.
The songs, Miller's own compositions, represent the easy-listening genre with their floating melodies, pleasant harmonies, and loping “soft touch" rhythms. Specific images sprout, ...
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