Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb

Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb: Stickadiboom

by Edward Blanco
April 13, 2009

Jazz bassist Steve Haines presents his Zoho debut and second release as leader with Stickadiboom (a drummer's term describing the sound of jazz drums), drawing on a collaboration with legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb to help him interpret the music. Haines, who directs the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, successfully crafts a dynamite session of New York style straight-ahead hard-bop jazz with his New York-based quintet.

Drummer Cobb contributes one chart and ...

Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb: Stickadiboom

by Woodrow Wilkins
March 25, 2009

With so many jazz artists revisiting standards, it is refreshing when an album like The Steve Haines Quintet's Stickadiboom comes out, featuring all-original music.Bassist Haines directs the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has recorded with some major names in jazz, including Branford Marsalis, Peter Erskine and Jimmy Cobb. His quintet is comprised of Rob Smith on trumpet and soprano sax, David Lown on tenor sax, Chip Crawford on ...