Jazz Articles about Robb Fisher

About Robb Fisher

Album Review

George Cotsirilos Quartet: Refuge

by Jack Bowers
June 18, 2022

At a troubling and turbulent time, when many jazz albums seek to convey a “message," the only statement that Chicago-bred, San Francisco-based guitarist George Cotsirilos and his able quartet wish to make on Refuge is that swing remains king in their domain, wielding its magisterial influence over ten of Cotsirilos' sunny compositions and arrangements. Even when Cotsirilos eases back on the accelerator, as he does on “The Three Doves" and “Smoke Signal," an undercurrent of persuasive rhythms ...

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Album Review

Wally Schnalle: That Place

Read "That Place" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
October 1, 1999

Drummer Wally Schnalle leads an impressive West Coast ensemble on an album of what could be called “post post-bop." More precisely, it's modern, exploratory jazz that still, generally, retains melody and recognizable form.Schnalle's 11 original compositions here range from hard funk to almost-free jazz. A few of the tunes put me in mind of the sorely missed Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet, thanks to soaring saxophone work from Charles McNeal and soulful, percussive piano from Jeff Pittson.All ...