Jazz Articles about Howard Britz

About Howard Britz

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Trombonist, composer and band leader Scott Reeves once performed a live concert at the City College of New York with his then quintet, which has now been documented as his newest offering entitled The Alchemist. However, new is not the operative word here, as this musical event took place on May 5th, 2005. While concentrating on compositions and recordings for his jazz orchestra over the last ten years, the pandemic provided Reeves with the opportunity to review the music he ...

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Scott Reeves Quintet: The Alchemist

Read "The Alchemist" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 21, 2021

Devastating as it has been, the global Covid-19 pandemic has produced a few upsides as well, one of which is the rediscovery by versatile Scott Reeves of a concert that his quintet performed sixteen years ago, in May 2005, at the City College of New York. With time on his hands as a result of the scarcity of gigs during the pandemic, Reeves visited his archives and found the recording, which he never intended to release owing to audio issues. ...

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Howard Britz: Here I Stand

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 26, 2008

I pregi di questo Here I Stand si possono individuare in una spiccata eleganza che pervade l’intero lavoro, nell’abilità compositiva di chi ha assimilato e studiato profondamente la storia della musica afroamericana, nell’uso di arrangiamenti che passano con disinvoltura dalle stringatezze di un jazz classicamente acustico all’enfasi lussureggiante tipica di formazioni più numerose. Non perdendo mai di vista il buon gusto, ed è cosa non da poco. Si va così dal gustoso calipso di “Yaakology“, alla struggente “Goodbye, for Dad“, ...

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Howard Britz: Made In Brooklyn

Read "Made In Brooklyn" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
December 13, 2005

Since when has getting four or five musicians together in one place qualified as a “project"? Although that question is a rhetorical one, it does have some bearing upon the music here. In his liner notes Howard Britz refers to the fact that the kind of sessions which make up this disc usually pass unrecorded, and the very informality that is a hallmark of all of them might just have no little bearing upon the success of the music. This ...