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Rob Reddy's Sleeping Dogs: Seeing By The Light Of My Own Candle

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by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

Rob Reddy's fourth disc as a leader marks a step forward in his ensemble vision. Reddy has always had a fascination with the different ways composition can fuel the development of musical ideas, and he pursues this focus from several different angles on Seeing By the Light of My Own Candle. The strengths of this record lie in Reddy's remarkable ability to fragment his ideas into flexible pieces, and then to combine them with the improvisational fluency of each personality ...

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Rob Reddy's Sleeping Dogs: Seeing By The Light Of My Own Candle

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by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2001

Based upon three strong recordings and a much talked about live act, saxophonist/composer Rob Reddy is surfacing as one of the rising stars in modern jazz, thanks to his easily identifiable compositional style and personalized approach to the alto and soprano saxophones. With his fourth release titled Seeing By The Light Of My Own Candle, the artist seemingly extends his somewhat unorthodox phraseology, as he pursues sinuous, elongated choruses and contrasting rhythmic structures. Here, Reddy pair offs with trumpeter John ...

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Rob Reddy's Honor System: Songs That You Can Trust

Read "Songs That You Can Trust" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 1999

Your speakers are liable to wilt and degenerate into molten rubble while playing the opening track titled, “Thread"! Here, the powerhouse rhythm section of drummer Pheeroan Aklaff and bassist Dom Richards drive spikes into the earth as guitarist Jef Lee Johnson enhances tension and excitement with blistering electric guitar lines. Well, Rob Reddy's Honor System follow up their excellent Songlines recording with Songs That You Can Trust, now on the Koch record label. “Thread" is all about guts and determination ...