Jazz Articles about Tim Posgate

About Tim Posgate

Album Review

Capping twenty years of running Lumo Records--a record label dedicated to her multifarious projects--with Canons, trumpeter Lina Allemano has assembled several innovative ensembles to give voice to her distinctive chamber-jazz aesthetic. While it might not be as obviously adventurous as some of her previous releases, it retains Allemano's signature emphasis on finding the ideal pivot point between composition and improvisation. And it is often a quite beautiful listening experience as well. Allemano has always been a crafty improviser, ...

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Album Review

Tim Posgate Hornband: Tim Posgate Hornband Featuring Howard Johnson

Read "Tim Posgate Hornband Featuring Howard Johnson" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 8, 2005

Tim Posgate is a Canadian guitarist who has demonstrated the kind of diverse idiosyncratic mindset in the past ten years that places him in the same musical vicinity as Bill Frisell. His latest release, Tim Posgate Hornband Featuring Howard Johnson, draws an even more visible link, with clear stylistic reference to Frisell's mid-'90s quartet with trumpeter Ron Miles, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, and violinist Eyvind Kang. Posgate's group operates with a similar premise--steadfastly eschewing a more traditional rhythm section, but still ...