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Lee Smith: My Kind of Blues

Label: Vectordisk
Released: 2015
Track listing: Afro Blue; High Step; Didn’t I; When Sunny Gets Blue; Latinesque; Alone Together; Brighter Days; My Kind of Blues.

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Lee Smith: My Kind of Blues

Read "Lee Smith: My Kind of Blues" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


After nearly 40 years as a working bassist, Lee Smith has become a jny: Philadelphia legend, playing gig after gig with just about everyone, including the Delphonics, Mongo Santamaria, Dizzy Gillespie, Roland Kirk, Lionel Hampton, and a host of Philadelphians, including Larry McKenna, Tom Lawton, Bootsie Barnes, Odean Pope, and the list goes on and on. ...

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Elysium

Label: Vectordisk
Released: 2009
Track listing: Winter's Deep; The Wanderer; Emerald Walls.

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Ron Thomas / John Swana / Joe Mullen: Elysium

Read "Elysium" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The sound of Elysium is, in a word, otherworldly. Then throw in the electro-industrial tinge and cold liquid submersion resonance--like the noise of a high tech blacksmith shop on a distant planet with a dense atmosphere and heavier than Earth gravity like Neptune--music of an alien culture, or songs played for cryogenically suspended astronauts slumbering their ...

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The House of Counted Days

Label: Vectordisk
Released: 2003
Track listing: Fancy of Fate, Code Red, Lines Where Beauty Lingers, Tough Nut, Ones and Eights, The House of Counted Days, Lucky Cuss, Blue Glass Country, Here

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Ron Thomas Quartet: The House of Counted Days

Read "The House of Counted Days" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


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 ...


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