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Tony Malaby: Sabino
by Mark Corroto
Finding your way in the jazz world is tricky these days. You are rewarded for playing music within the ‘jazz tradition’ but also penalized for not ‘having your own voice.’ Actually making it, has always been a sticky wicket. Think about artists like Herbie Nichols and Elmo Hope who stuck too their individual visions, but lived (and died) in obscurity. Record executives, music buyers, and, regrettably, other musicians shunned even the high priest Thelonious Monk during his most fruitful years. ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Other than being a top flight and much in demand session musician, french hornist Tom Varner has rapidly established a reputation as being a formidable composer-leader resulting from a string of highly successful solo recordings. Here, on Swimming Varner helps inaugurate the promising newOmniTonelabel which has jumped out of the gate rather quickly with excellent new recordings by Frank Kimbrough/Joe Locke, Ron Horton (see Nov 99 AAJ reviews) and Joe Morris.Matters get off to a rousing start with ...
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