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Album Review

Garth Alper: Spider's Web

Read "Spider's Web" reviewed by Edward Blanco


The Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of Louisiana, pianist Dr. Garth Alper presents his fifth album as leader, Spider's Web, offering seven original compositions of straight-ahead material to follow up his well-received Stratus (CD Baby, 2017). A consistently swinging repertoire throughout, the music on this next chapter is as attention-grabbing as that documented on his previous effort. Reuniting with fellow university colleagues bassist Bob Nash and drummer Chris Munson, Alper adds fellow professor and instructor of ...

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Album Review

Garth Alper: Stratus

Read "Stratus" reviewed by Edward Blanco


The fourth album as leader from pianist Garth Alper, Stratus, is a nine-piece musical portrait painted on a canvas of seven original colors and two re-imagined standards designed in the good ol' fashioned straight-ahead tradition. Dr. Alper, coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of Louisiana (UL) in Lafayette, draws on a handful of faculty members at UL, in creating a very formidable quintet that provides “their own artistic insights" into crafting and producing the album. The result, of course, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Spider's Web

Self Produced
2023

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Stratus

Self Produced
2017

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