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Jeff Zelnick: A Little More Than The Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
A Well-plowed Field. If jazz was farming, A Little More Than The Blues would be a fertile field producing the same crop in high yield and of high quality, year in and year out. Altoist Jeff Zelnick does not break any new ground here, but he does offer the listener a very pleasant listen to some very well-crafted, bop-oriented jazz. Fronting a classic Reed/Brass quintet, Zelnick uses a friendly, full tone complimented by trumpeter Valery Ponomarev’s conservative, well-trained delivery to ...
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by Jack Bowers
A player who writes - or a writer who plays? Jeff Zelnick performs so capably in both areas on his debut CD that it could be a toss-up. As a writer, Zelnick composed all selections on More Than the Blues except the old Eartha Kitt favorite, “C'est Si Bon." As a player, he meshes beautifully with fellow front-liner Valery Ponomarev and solos with warmth and assurance throughout. I don't know who Zelnick's influences are, but three of them have to ...
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