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All The Things We Still Can Be

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ecstatic Little Porpoises; All The Things We Still Can Be; Untimely Instrusion; Everything Happens To Me; Country Dave Tex Mex; What Is This Thing We Still Can Be?; Why Don't You Dance?; Perpetual Motion.

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Jacob Varmus: All the Things We Still Can Be

Read "All the Things We Still Can Be" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 4, 2006

Some influences are readily apparent on trumpeter Jacob Varmus' debut disc, All the Things We Still Can Be, especially Chet Baker and Miles Davis, circa mid-'50s to mid-'60s. The set opens with a buoyant Varmus original, “Ecstatic Little Porpoises." Varmus' tone is warm and round and a bit soft-tufted, like Baker's, as he blows a bright ...

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Jacob Varmus: All The Things We Still Can Be

Read "All The Things We Still Can Be" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
November 30, 2006

On Jacob Varmus' debut recording he proves to be an exciting trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Hailing from San Francisco by way of the University of Iowa, Varmus originally planned to be a poet but was also drawn to the music of jazz trumpeters, of whom Chet Baker and Woody Shaw were early favorites. He has worked ...