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Russ Brannon, Daniel Carter, Paul Tobey, Eliane Elias
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music--new music selections from guitarist Russ Brannon, reed player Daniel Carter leading a quintet, and pianist Paul Tobey and Eliane Elias. Playlist Louis Armstrong “Gone Fishin'" from An American Icon (Hip-O) 2:32 Russ Brannon “Raltzy" from Sojourn (Self Produced) 4:43 Bruce Lofgren “String Theory" from Earthly and Cosmic Tales (Night Bird) 4:59 Marcus Miller “Behind the Sun" from Silver Rain (3 Deuces) 6:24 Jihye Lee “We Are All from ...
Continue ReadingPaul Tobey: It's Time
by Dan McClenaghan
Canadian pianist Paul Tobey was on a fast track in 2004, with his debut release on Arkadia Records garnering a Juno Award nomination (the Canadian Grammy) and an eight-record deal with the label. Enter tendonitis, and severe inflation in his forearms that pushed a promising career to the back burner. After a two-decade hiatus, Tobey slides that career back up to the front of the stove in 2024, with It's Time, a solo set of (mostly) familiar covers.
Continue ReadingPaul Tobey: Street Culture
by AAJ Staff
Paul Tobey's first Arkadia CD seems to be significant in several ways.From the label's perspective, it represents an extension of its earlier documentation of and rejoicing in the music of already-established jazz musicians who lacked a recording contract-seemingly, an incomprehensible oversight. Legends like Dr. Billy Taylor, Benny Golson, Joanne Brackeen and Dave Liebman were left to their own devices for presenting their music in recorded form until Arkadia founder, Bob Karcy, perspicaciously signed them. From that solid beginning, ...
Continue ReadingPaul Tobey: Wayward
by Douglas Payne
Paul Tobey is that rare pianist who doesn't play so much as plot -- as a composer might. Well he should since seven of the eight tunes on the young Canadian's debut, Wayward, are his own. And they're well worth hearing. He is a masterfully musical player and a fascinating composer whose musical patterns - written and improvised - are fully fleshed points of logic that take story-like form.Obviously schooled in the classics, Tobey's swinging nature comes from ...
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