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Brian Charette: Music for Organ Sextette
by Mark F. Turner
While there've been a few exceptions, many jazz organ-based recordings deliver the same old grind of not deviating too far from the Jimmy Smith or Charles Earland grease and grits format. But not in the case of Brian Charette's Music for Organ Sextette , a release that balances harmonically complex ideas with catchy melodies. The Grammy nominated artist has worked with names from Chaka Khan to Joni Mitchell, is active in New York and has released a ...
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by Woodrow Wilkins
The typical jazz trio consists of bass, drums and a lead instrument--usually a guitar, saxophone, organ or piano. Brian Charette sidesteps this ideal with something as interesting as it is off the proverbial beaten path. Organist Charette also plays the piano and uses a laptop computer in creating the sounds for Missing Floor. For accompaniment, he does have a drummer in Jochen Rueckert. Leon Gruenbaum completes the ensemble, playing piano and Samchillian, which is a computer keyboard ...
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