Jazz Articles about Andrew Rathbun

Andrew Rathbun: Sculptures

by Dan McClenaghan
August 1, 2002

His last time out on Fresh Sound Records, saxophonist/composer Adnrew Rathbun stretched the jazz listening experience by incorporating the writing of his fellow Canadian, Margaret Atwood, into his genre-bending CD, True Stories. The music was indeed 'Fresh Sounding', giving melody and quintet jazz backing to Atwood's lovely poems. And the band, when Atwood wasn't featured, turned out some high-energy, modal, mid-sixties Miles Davis sounds, Fender rhodes and all.This time out, on Sculptures , Rathbun offers up jazz straight ...

Andrew Rathbun: True Stories

by Jerry D'Souza
June 1, 2001

Jazz defies structure, poetry can harness it. Putting the two together requires an adept mind, an articulate skill and the vision to encapsulate the body of one within the free form of the other. When Andrew Rathbun takes on the poetry of Margaret Atwood, he gives it a new, and deserving, testament.

Rathbun studied the work of the celebrated Canadian writer in school. Here he uses two of her lesser-known works, “True Stories" and “Bluejays", bringing in Luciana Souza to ...

Andrew Rathbun (: True Stories

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 2001

Canadian saxophonist/composer Andrew Rathbun’s True Stories is a testament to fellow Canadian, poet Margaret Atwood’s lesser known works such as “True Stores” and “Bluejays”. For his third release, the artist demonstrates a keen and convincingly fresh compositional jazz-based approach. Vocalist Luciana Souza lends her warm, softly stated lyricism to several of these pieces amid blended horns, bustling yet often streamlined rhythmic developments and heartfelt choruses by Rathbun, trumpeter Taylor Haskins and pianist George Colligan.

“True Stories Part I” features Ms. ...