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Meet Marvin Stamm
by Craig Jolley
Soloist, bandleader, lead trumpeter, cultural activist, educator, website maintainer, and southern gentleman Marvin Stamm functions on the highest plane in all his capacities. Like most musicians who succeed these days he communicates with his audience and brings them into his music. A sensitive yet extroverted player Stamm has a new CD by his working quartet with guest artist John Abercrombie. The Stamm/Soph Project--Live at Birdland My present quartet--Bill Mays, piano, Ed Soph, drums, and Rufus Reid, bass--has been ...
Continue ReadingThe Marvin Stamm Quartet: Elegance
by Jack Bowers
The “invisible man” returns. Trumpeter Marvin Stamm, who played with big bands led by Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, among others, before vanishing in the early ’70s into the wilderness of studio work in New York City, is playing Jazz again — has been for some time now — and that is good news indeed for those of us who appreciate the sort of “elegance” he invariably espouses. Indeed, there’s no more appropriate word than ...
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