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by Richard J Salvucci
I haven't been to the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania in years. But if I make it there, I hope to time my visit to coincide with Five Play at theDeer Head Inn, which bills itself as the “oldest continuously running jazz club in the country." Long may it prosper, for there are good musical things happening there. Big bands and their leaders have always had small groups:from Benny Goodman to Stan Kenton, and Woody Herman and Tommy ...
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by Elliott Simon
On the Brink (Arbors, 1999), the premiere effort from drummer Sherry Maricle's DIVA Big Band extraction Five Play, left no doubt that this all-female quintet can swing powerfully and bop across a broad musical spectrum. Maricle's upfront rhythms and the double alto attack of Karoline Strassmeyer and Laura Dreyer demonstrated a tight in-the-pocket sound that was crisp and polished. Although female jazz drummers and horn players are still a rarity in most quarters, the ensuing years have seen an ever-increasing ...
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by Jack Bowers
Here's another bright and swinging album by drummer Sherrie Maricle's able quintet, Five Play (a.k.a. DIVA Lite), encumbered at times by questionable mixing but as a whole quite engaging. For the group's second recording on Arbors, Maricle has assembled an international troupe of all-stars from the larger ensemble--alto saxophonist Karolina Strassmayer hails from Austria, tenor Anat Cohen from Israel, bassist Noriko Ueda and drummer Tomoko Ohno from Japan--and set aside room for guest shots by two members ...
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