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Cliff Brucker: Full Circle Vol. 2
by Don Phipps
On Full Circle Vol 2, Albany, New York-based drummer Cliff Brucker and friends reach back to the swing and bop jazz periods to showcase their talents on a set of first-rate standards. These musicians clearly understand the bop trade and what emerges from their collective knowledge is solid and assured music. The entire affair is like a stroll around a familiar block. The arrangements have an early-60s feel. Think of a party with the Rat Pack. Brucker's steady ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Drummer Cliff Brucker is based in New York, but it is not the big city. He and his crack quintet--two horns, piano/bass/guitar drums--are settled in upstate, in Albany. They revisit the sound of the Blue Note Records' heyday on this follow up to Full Circle (Self Produced, 2016), with Full Circle, Vol 2. A revisitation/celebration of a classic jazz era--the late fifties through the late sixties--Full Circle, Vol. 2 embraces the mainstream sound and the attitude that evolved ...
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