Jazz Articles about Ron Kobayashi

About Ron Kobayashi

Album Review

Mark Lewis: Sunlight Shines In

Read "Sunlight Shines In" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2023

Saxophonist/flutist Mark Lewis, who has returned to his native Washington state after years of making beautiful music around the world, escorts a quartet of talented West Coast musicians through eleven of his upbeat compositions on Sunlight Shines In, with trumpeter Nolan Shaheed sitting in on two numbers. Although Lewis' tunes won't widen any horizons, they are resolutely earnest and congenial and provide a pleasurable listening experience. Lewis plays alto sax on six tracks, flute on four, tenor ...

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Ron Kobayashi Trio: No Preservatives

Read "No Preservatives" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2001

It's a pleasure to hear an album that is recorded as it was played. With just a minor dubbing adjustment on one track, what you're hearing on the latest album from the Ron Kobayashi Trio is precisely what they played in the studio. There's no “creative" mixing which, in my view, is akin to revising history constructing something quite different from what actually happened which is the forte of many of today's so called young lions of jazz. Kobayashi has ...

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