Jazz Articles about Doug Mosher

About Doug Mosher

Album Review

Doug Mosher / John Estes: Southern Lights

Read "Southern Lights" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
May 26, 2016

It is almost certain that many readers of these pages have at one time or another been faced with a recording that you just did not like or could not get into. Now, life is short, and there is no dishonor in moving on to other things. However, perhaps this work was recommended or it had garnered good reviews by people whose knowledge and/or taste you have come to respect. If that is the case, you might try ...

Album Review

Doug Mosher / John Estes: Southern Lights

Read "Southern Lights" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2015

After listening to Southern Lights, a series of extremely low-key tone poems by tenor saxophonist Doug Mosher and bassist John Estes, two questions spontaneously arise: first, where is the audience for an album that glides gently along on an unflagging current of somnolence? (the term “smooth jazz" springs to mind, but even that genre produces an occasional spark). And second, what did Mosher and Estes have in mind when planning what is basically a procession of pleasantly unremarkable themes which, ...