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CD/LP/TRACK REVIEW February 9, 2003

Ron Thomas Quartet: The House of Counted Days

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Pianist Ron Thomas leads a quartet with a trumpeter (John Swana) out front on The House of Counted Days, and two things jump out: an obvious Miles Davis influence, and some striking originality.The opener, “Fancy of Fate," pushes you off balance. An oddly percussive workout, jaunty, ebullient, crisp; and the frame of reference is anybody's guess. Bassist Tony Marino works that big fat rubber band thing (four of them) on upright--muscular, with gorgeous sustaining power--while trumpeter Swana bites ...

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I love jazz because it is in my blood. It is the only original American art form. It is sacred. The greatest musicians are jazz artists. I was first exposed to jazz in 1961 listening to my father's records of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young. I met Sonny Stitt, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Michael Brecker, Cannonball Adderley, Walter Booker, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Benson, Mike Stern, Stanley Turrentine, Billy Harper, Skip Hadden, Charlie Haden. The best show I ever attended was Joe Lovano with Soundprints at the Wexner Center in Columbus Ohio in 2014. The first jazz record I bought was Miles Smiles.

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