Jazz Articles about Tom Coster

About Tom Coster

Radio & Podcasts

Brett Garsed, Tom Coster, Niacin, Chick Corea, Akira Jimbo, Andre Drage, Mohini Dey, Resonance Vox

by Len Davis
January 18, 2026

We kick off the week at Uncle Moe's Space Ranch with gritty, high-density fusion featuring Brett Garsed and Dennis Chambers, followed by more intense fusion from Tom Coster with the late sax legend Bob Berg. Power Trio Niacin brings the heat alongside the late Chick Corea and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana. We dive into new music from Japanese drummer Akira Jimbo and Otmaro Ruiz, Spanish guitarist Tjides, and Gary Husband with T.O.L. Atmospheric sounds arrive from Norway's Andre Drage, contrasted ...

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1992, Tom Coster, Adam Holzman, Kenwood Dennard, Jack De Johnette and much more

by Len Davis
July 26, 2024

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 ...

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Bassist Gary Willis, Alex Machacek and a feature on Tone Centre records

by Len Davis
November 20, 2022

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 ...

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Erik Truffaz, Steve Smith and Vital Information and Tom Coster

by Len Davis
January 14, 2022

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 ...

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Album Review

Tom Coster: Ivory Expedition

Read "Ivory Expedition" reviewed by Dave Hughes

by Dave Hughes
November 1, 1999

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 ...

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Album Review

Tom Coster: Ivory Expedition

Read "Ivory Expedition" reviewed by Ed Kopp

by Ed Kopp
December 1, 1998

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 ...