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Marshall Vente Trio: Marshall Arts
by Matthew Warnock
Marshall Arts is an entertaining and engaging album by versatile Chicago pianist Marshall Vente. The recording features pieces written for each of Vente's two separate and highly distinct piano trios, the Jazz Trio and the Tropicale Trio. The album as a whole is divided into three sections, with the first three tunes featuring Vente's American jazz roots, the middle four tunes consisting of Brazilian-influenced tunes and the final three tracks returning to post-bop style jazz. Ever the musical chameleon, Vente's ...
Continue ReadingMarshall Vente Project 9: Marshall Law
by Jack Bowers
Marshall Law is comprised of eleven songs recorded during the past twenty years by groups assembled by the indefatigable Chicagobased bandleader / composer / arranger / entrepreneur Marshall Vente who not only has his own web site but his own record label, Jazz festival and radio program as well. Vente, who studied under David Matthews and the late Gil Evans, has succeeded by skillfully fusing elements of salsa, straight-ahead Jazz, blues and rock into a colorful pastiche that is designed ...
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