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Movie Theme by Michael Dease

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Album Title: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025

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About the Album

Michael Dease has fully earned his stature as one of the great trombonists and jazz figures of these times. His formidableness on the instrument, matched by his pursuit of inspired musical challenges and robust partnerships, is fully on display in the double CD, City Life, his third album devoted to the music of composer Gregg Hill. Teaming with two of the more powerful voices in music–bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts–Dease devotes Disc One to a kinetically charged trio environment, capturing the gritty side of City Life by sparring freely with his trio mates while they masterfully cohabitate the flow of time. Disc Two adds saxophonist Nicole Glover and pianist Geoffrey Keezer to the soundscape, which may reflect a sophisticated counterview, with each disc capturing a perspective of the contradictions that make up City Life. “Dease modernizes the style significantly, energizes it, and gives it a new dimension. He skillfully handles both the most lively and the most poetic…” - PARIS MOVE

Tracks

Disc 1 (Trio): Willow Walks In; City Life; Danger Zone; Movie Theme; Sweet Georgia Gillespie; Double Bill; Claxilever; Catalyst; Say Whaaat!?; Movie Theme (Reprise). Disc 2 (Quintet): Tea Time; The Classic II; Grave Concerns; Mr. Hurt; Rainy Afternoon; Enigma; Skittles; Blues for Herb; Lafayette Square.

Personnel

Additional Personnel

Jared Beckstead-Craan: bass CD 2: (4 & 6); Brooklyn Dease: voice: (CD 1 (4 & 10).

Reviews

City Life: Music of Gregg Hill by Paul Rauch
City Life: Music of Gregg Hill by Dan McClenaghan

Date featured

July 27, 2025

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