Jazz Articles about Dave Leslie

About Dave Leslie

Album Review

This album is another indication of the many forms the basic elements of jazz can be adapted to. Keyboard and accordion player, Dave Leslie, applies jazz principles to a series of tunes based in foreign lands. There are pieces which have rhythms derived from the Balkans, Ireland, Bulgaria, etc. On this international musical escapade, Leslie is joined by musicians who regularly appear on Dave Storrs' Corvallis, Oregon-based Louie label, including the inestimable Mr. Storrs himself on drums and percussion.

To ...

107

Album Review

Dave Leslie: The Brim

Read "The Brim" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
April 12, 2002

The modern mainstream thrives on adventure. Whether it be dissonance, rhythmic complexity, ethnic re-creations or creative improvisation, the artist has a freedom that is rare in most forms of music. Jazz, however, lives and grows because of artists who dare to be different.

Dave Leslie takes it to the edge with his hands held firmly around the middle. Tradition is never far away, as his compositions travel through The Old West, the Roaring Twenties, The Old Country, ...

Album Review

Dave Leslie: The Brim

by Dave Nathan
April 12, 2002

To ...

Album Review

Dave Leslie: The Brim

by Jim Santella
April 12, 2002

Dave Leslie takes it to the edge with his hands held firmly around the middle. Tradition is never far away, as his compositions travel through The Old West, the Roaring Twenties, The Old Country, and midtown Manhattan. ...