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1992, Tom Coster, Adam Holzman, Kenwood Dennard, Jack De Johnette and much more
by Len Davis
Music from 1992 featuring Tom Coster, Adam Holzman, Kenwood Dennard, Jack DeJohnette and John McLaughlin Trio. Pat Metheny, Spyro Gyra, Mike Mainieri, Brand X and German bassist Dieter Ilg, with Mike Stern and Bob Berg. Playlist Tom Coster “Please Pass The Beano" from Gotcha (JVC) 00:00 Adam Holzman “Hail To The Chief" from In A Loud Way (Manhattan) 07:03 Kenwood Dennard “Just Advance" from Just Advance (Big World) 14:09 Jack DeJohnette “Miles" from Music For The Fifth World ...
Continue ReadingBassist Gary Willis, Alex Machacek and a feature on Tone Centre records
by Len Davis
Jeff Sipe Trio, Gary Willis, FAT, John McLaughlin. Plus a feature on Tone Centre Records with Vital Tech Tones 2, Cause and Effect, Uncle Moe's Space Ranch and Extraction .Playlist Jeff Sipe-Trio “Home Town" from Jeff Sipe Trio (Abstract Logix) 00:00 Gary Willis “Disconnectivity" from Retro (Abstract Logix) 07:14 FAT “Holiday In Tamelin" from # Awesome (Abstract Logix) 14:31 John McLaughlin “Little Miss Valley" from The Boston Record (Abstract Logixl) 21:40 VTT 2 “The Litigants" from Vital Tech ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo Rubalcaba, Erik Truffaz, Steve Smith and Vital Information and Tom Coster
by Len Davis
Cuban piano and keyboard player Gonzalo Rubalcaba from Paseo, French Trumpeter Erik Truffaz, from Canada Alain Caron and intense fusion from Tom Coster and Gary Willis.Playlist Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Paseo Con Fula" from Paseo (Blue Note) 00:00 Erik Truffaz “Ghost Drummer" from Saloua (EMI) 06:19 Alain Caron “Trouble" from Play (Norac) 12:30 Steve Smith & Vital Information “High Wire" from Come On In (Tone Centre) 18:47 Nguyen Le “Funk Rai" from Maghreb And Friends (ACT) 25:03 Yellow Jackets “Youth ...
Continue ReadingTom Coster: Ivory Expedition
by Dave Hughes
This CD presents two albums recorded by Tom Coster in 1981 and 1983. These sessions took place just a few years after Coster's six-year stint with Santana. Many hints of the music Coster composed and performed with Santana show through on some songs, such as the ballads "Magical Moments" and "I Give My Heart to You", although guitarist Joaquin Lievano (fresh from three years of high-octane fusion shredding with Jean-Luc Ponty) often lends the tunes a harder-edged fusion bite than ...
Continue ReadingTom Coster: Ivory Expedition
by Ed Kopp
Back in the early '80s, when I was a beer-swilling, poverty-stricken, disco-hating, post-college naif, my favorite kind of music was jazz-fusion. My early-80s self was particularly smitten by Tom Coster's first two solo records. I regretted having to sell those albums to a graduate student prior to one of my many cross-town moves. When I learned this summer that Fantasy was reissuing both albums on a single CD, I thought it might be fun to see if the music still ...
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