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Tim Larkin: Setting Standards
by Acacia Grace
Immerse yourself in the smooth, sophisticated sounds of contemporary jazz with Tim Larkin's Setting Standards. From the opening notes, Larkin establishes an effortless atmosphere, allowing his horns to take center stage without overpowering the arrangements. There is a relaxed confidence to his playing that makes the album particularly inviting: music that feels equally suited to attentive listening or simply setting the mood. One of the standout tracks of this album is Larkin's reimagining of “Through the Fire.“ Rather ...
Continue ReadingKate Olson: So It Goes
by Jack Bowers
There are times when an album slips completely off the rails so abruptly and forcefully that it tarnishes what has come before it as well as what is to follow. Such is the case with Seatte-based saxophonist and composer Kate Olson's album, So It Goes, which is humming briskly along, free from perplexity or discord, until she and her companions decide to perform Alice Coltrane's enigmatic “Translinear Light." By the time those seven minutes-plus have passed, whatever positive impressions the ...
Continue ReadingCassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida
by Jack Bowers
As you can't always describe a book by its cover, neither can you invariably pinpoint with accuracy a jazz ensemble's locale by its name alone. The Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra, to choose a random example, is not from Italy--nor from anywhere else in Europe. Although born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cassio Vianna has lived in the United States since 2009 and is, in fact, a music educator and director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, ...
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Bumbling Thumbs Blues
From: So It GoesBy Conner Eisenmenger
Gumshoes
From: Setting StandardsBy Conner Eisenmenger
Conner Eisenmenger
Instrument: Trombone
