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The Karen Hammack / Paul Kreibich Quartet: Lonesome Tree

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2002

In his liner notes to Lonesome Tree, Scott Yanow describes coleaders Karen Hammack and Paul Kreibich as “a pair of underrated talents who deserve to be much better known” — an observation that applies as well to countless other Jazz musicians both past and present. Even so, this is an admirable debut for the Hammack / Kreibich Quartet whose other members are straightshooting tenor saxophonist John Gross and dependable bassist Putter Smith. Four is the album’s dominant number with the ...

Album Review

The Karen Hammack/Paul Kreibich Quartet: Lonesome Tree

by Dave Nathan
January 1, 2002

Pianist Karen Hammack and drummer Paul Kreibich are both seasoned veterans of the West Coast jazz scene having appeared on numerous recordings of other jazz artists. Here they co-lead a quartet devoted to playing original material mostly by Hammock and Kreibich with one piece by Eric Von Essen. The compositions combine the structure of semi-hard bop with an occasional flight into the dissonant by tenor saxophonist John Gross. This melding of genre is especially conspicuous on the opening track, “Something ...