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Charles Eubanks: Birds of Bagdad
by Andrew Rowan
The art of solo piano has always been one of the most challenging and rewarding endeavors in jazz. The piano is a symphony and, in the hands of the skilled player, possessed with imagination and nerve, it can be breathtaking. Into this tradition steps Charles Eubanks and he acquits himself well. Takes 3 and 4 of “Landscape," with its echoes of Dizzy Gillespie's “Con Alma," bookend this recording. The suite “Making Overtures" follows. Ruminative in its opening movement, ...
read moreCharles Eubanks: New Beginnings
by Derek Taylor
In the expanding CIMP canon piano recordings are comparatively small in number. The cramped size and nature of the Spirit Room makes the presence of a piano problematic. To accommodate the small number of sessions where the instrument is essential Bob Rusch commonly rents space in a nearby recital hall. The change of locale necessarily creates a challenge for engineer Marc Rusch and this solo program by Charles Eubanks stands as no exception. Fortunately the younger Rusch brings his studio ...
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