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Triology: The Slow Road
by Jack Bowers
As if having three of Canada's most cherished and honored jazz musicians together in a recording studio were not enough, that trio--best known by its collective name, Triology--chooses to travel The Slow Road with one of America's national treasures, the incomparable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. When it comes to lovely music lovingly conceived and performed, it seldom gets much better than this. On the other hand...The Slow Road is for the most part precisely that: ballads, waltzes, ...
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by Pierre Giroux
In The Slow Road, the Canadian trio Triology--comprised of pianist Miles Black, guitarist Bill Coon, and bassist Jodi Proznick--joins forces with the inimitable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton to present a recording that swings with warmth, restraint, and unfailing musicality. This is chamber jazz at its most elegant, invoking the refined spirit of classic drummerless trios such as Oscar Peterson's early unit, the Nat King Cole Trio, and the telepathic interplay of Ahmad Jamal's 1950s groups. The ...
Continue ReadingAngela Verbrugge: Somewhere
by Katchie Cartwright
Based in Victoria, British Columbia, Angela Verbrugge keeps a busy schedule as a singer, touring in Canada and farther afield. In addition to performing, she writes songs--jazz songs, new standards--with lyrics that are engagingly personal and funny, containing the occasional acerbic twist. As a lyricist, she often speaks to the quotidian. Her texts are a perfect match for pianist Ray Gallon's boppish compositions. On “Enough's Enough" (Love for Connoisseurs, Gut String Records, 2022), she takes a sloppy lover to task ...
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by Michael Steinman
The proper response to Beauty is an awed admiring silence. So these liner notes should be one word in a large font: LISTEN. But Angela asked me to add a few hundred keystrokes to the project, so here we are. Incidentally, I have chosen to focus on Angela in the midst of the most superb musicians and arrangements. I hope they will forgive me! Angela Verbrugge is a great subversive. Her work is so quietly insinuating that listeners ...
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