Jazz Articles about James Dower

James Dower Trio: Featuring Steve Skop and Mark Mahoney

by Dave Nathan
April 1, 2001

James Dower and his cohorts have put out a fine modern piano trio album. Featuring six originals and two standards they assault the play list with a combination of aggression and sensitivity that works. Clearly it is their intent show listeners that they are wizards at what they do and manage to be convincing. There's a bit of everything regarding the contemporary approach to the piano trio on this CD. Dower's piano takes the lead on “Night and Day" as ...