Jazz Articles about Phil Norman Tentet

The Phil Norman Tentet: Wide Range

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2004

The Phil Norman Tentet opens its fourth album, Wide Range, with Bob Florence’s finger-busting arrangement of “Autumn Leaves,” and had it stopped on that dime, I’d have already been wrapped up and sold. But there’s more than an hour of music yet to come, all of it high-octane super premium (and unleaded), as Norman and his intrepid colleagues weave their way through road-hugging charts by Florence, Kim Richmond, Roger Neumann, Jackson Stock and Anthony Wilson and along well-paved thoroughfares mapped ...