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Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns

by Neil Duggan
This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg. It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of Asheville, North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to New Orleans for the recording. He had previously worked in the city for nearly a decade and notes that Having not seen or played with my bandmates in close to a year, I wanted to do something that captured the joy of reconnecting with old friends through ...
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by Troy Dostert
Although this is far from a debut album, Matt Booth's Sun Prints does provide an opportunity for the enterprising bassist to offer a release comprised solely of his own compositions. With the assistance of a well-assembled band behind him, Booth proves himself more than capable of meeting the challenge, with eleven engaging tunes that cover a wide swath of jazz idioms. Booth's quintet features his frequent associate Oscar Rossignoli on piano and keyboards, along with trumpeter Steve Lands, ...
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