Jazz Articles about Dave Glenn

About Dave Glenn

Album Review

John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawcaptak Quartet: Violin Memory

Read "Violin Memory" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 2, 2022

Guitarist John Stowell does not hesitate when it comes to taking on unconventional projects. 2021 saw him teaming with vocalist Dan Dean on Rain Painting (Origin Records)--an album of featuring an overdubbed layering of voices (Dean's) making for lush and enriching choir-like harmonics, accompanied by Stowell's various guitars. The Seattle-based guitarist's follow-up finds him teaming with trombonist Dave Glenn, a longtime collaborator, and bringing in a classical string quartet to enhance the atmosphere. The results are a unique ...

Album Review

Greg Yasinitsky YAZZ Band: New Normal

Read "New Normal" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2021

As one good album clearly deserves another, Greg Yasinitsky, who wears many hats—composer, arranger, woodwind specialist and educator among them—has released New Normal, the second impressive outing by his admirable Washington state-based ensemble, the YAZZ Band, which varies in size from septet to tentet. Unlike Yasinitsky's earlier album, YAZZ Band, which was recorded basically in one session with fixed personnel, the coronavirus pandemic upended any such plan this time, forcing an end to in-person studio sessions after five tracks had ...