Results for "Frank Lozano"

Frank Lozano

Convergence

By Gentiane MG

Label: MCM Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: My Steps - Frank Lozano Era - Frank Lozano Hurry Up - Gentiane MG Furtive Thoughts - Gentiane MG Stablemates - Benny Golson Salut d'Amour - Elgar Quick Fix - Frank Lozano

Joshua Rager Nonet: Jondo

by Jack Bowers
September 21, 2017

It's hard to decide what to make of this. Canadian-based composer / pianist Joshua Rager has assembled a splendid corps of musicians, nine in all (plus trumpeter Andy King on the three-part “Prodigal Son Suite"), to perform seven of the leader's original themes, one by Andre White and another by the Hollywood songwriting team of Al ...

Octo Portraits

By JazzLab Orchestra

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ouverture; December Hymn; Tracing The Chain; Humor de la Noche; Trois récits de voyage; Phil's Spirit; Tibou; Mrs BB.

GuitarNow! 2013, Day Two: Ottawa, Canada, May 4, 2013

by John Kelman
May 25, 2013

First Annual GuitarNow! Festival, Day TwoKailash Mital TheatreCarleton UniversityOttawa, CanadaMay 4, 2013When local guitarist Roddy Ellias--the recipient, that very week, of one of the Jazz Journalist Association's Jazz Hero awards for 2013 (the only Canadian on the list)--created the concept of the first annual GuitarNow! Festival with Carleton University, ...

Thom Gossage Other Voices: In Other Words

by Matt Marshall
October 28, 2011

According to drummer Thom Gossage, the tracks on this, the fifth release by his Other Voices ensemble, are launched from a single figure--anything from a simple melodic line, to fully composed pieces of music, rhythm scores, electronic soundscapes, chants and poems--that are subsequently abstracted through an assemblage process. The idea came to him after viewing a ...

Jazzlab: Octo Portraits

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 21, 2011

There is much more to Jazzlab's molten Octo Portraits than a sense that the ensemble is so finely attuned to each other as to create works of timbral excellence and nuanced textures. The outstanding voices of the individual instrumentalists are not hidden in this bubbling liquefaction, beaming radiantly through the crack in the door each time ...

Colour Fields

By Frank Lozano

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Cast; Village; Rothko (Colour Fields); Buciumeana; New Man; Kandinsky; Now Won; L.R.P.; Fleurette Africaine; Center of Gravity.

Frank Lozano Group: Colour Fields

by John Kelman
February 1, 2008

The diversity of the Canadian jazz scene, as with many countries, is rarely fully appreciated. The Montreal scene, in particular, is as far-reaching as it gets--everything from the mainstream to the experimental can be found in the clubs and on labels like Effendi and Justin Time. Ottawa-born, Toronto and Boston- schooled, and Montreal-based saxophonist Frank Lozano ...

On the Level

By Louise Denson

Label: Dengor Music
Released: 1996
Track listing: My Favorite Things; On the Level; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Prevailing Wisterly; L'angoisse, qu'est-ce?; Oblique Angle; Pondside