Jazz Articles about Michael Dease

About Michael Dease

Album Review

At the tender age of twenty-four, jazz trombonist and educator Michael Dease has developed an impressive musical résumé that now includes his third album as leader with Clarity and his second 2007 issue (Dease Bones, on Astrix Media). With credits that include an extensive performance roster--including Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Alicia Keys and Slide Hampton, being a member of the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band and former member of the Illinois Jacquet Big Band---Dease is well on his way ...

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Album Review

Michael Dease: Dease Bones

Read "Dease Bones" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
December 15, 2007

Trombones galore are what you'll find in Dease Bones. Young musician/educator Michael Dease ardently crafted and assembled some friends and fellow 'bone players for this recording of camaraderie, immaculate sounds and swinging tempos forged in the vein of greats such as Slide Hampton and J.J. Johnson. But Dease's new framework is built upon not only the instrument's history but also its present resurgence as noted in recent efforts by seminal players: Rick Parker's New York Gravity (Fresh Sound New Talent, ...