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Andrew Rathbun/Owen Howard Quintet: Days Before and After

Read "Days Before and After" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 25, 2004

How does a jazz musician go about adding some zest and shine, and maybe a touch of modernity, to the old tried and true saxophone-and-rhythm-section format? Sometimes they use a Fender Rhodes instead the accoustic piano, and sometimes they put an electric guitar in the keyboard's place; and sometimes they add a guitar to the piano, ...

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Sculptures

By Andrew Rathbun

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sculptures 1, Nameless, Your Eyes Changed Us, Architect, et al...

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Andrew Rathbun: Sculptures

Read "Sculptures" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 1, 2002

His last time out on Fresh Sound Records, saxophonist/composer Adnrew Rathbun stretched the jazz listening experience by incorporating the writing of his fellow Canadian, Margaret Atwood, into his genre-bending CD, True Stories. The music was indeed 'Fresh Sounding', giving melody and quintet jazz backing to Atwood's lovely poems. And the band, when Atwood wasn't featured, turned ...

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True Stories

By Andrew Rathbun

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2001
Track listing: Vignette I, True Stories Parts I-III, Vignette II, Another Aspect, Cards, Bluejays, Majority, She Who Chose (The Lies That Daylight Told Us), Vignette III

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Andrew Rathbun: True Stories

by Jerry D'Souza
June 1, 2001

Jazz defies structure, poetry can harness it. Putting the two together requires an adept mind, an articulate skill and the vision to encapsulate the body of one within the free form of the other. When Andrew Rathbun takes on the poetry of Margaret Atwood, he gives it a new, and deserving, testament. Rathbun studied the work ...

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Andrew Rathbun (: True Stories

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 2001

Canadian saxophonist/composer Andrew Rathbun’s True Stories is a testament to fellow Canadian, poet Margaret Atwood’s lesser known works such as “True Stores” and “Bluejays”. For his third release, the artist demonstrates a keen and convincingly fresh compositional jazz-based approach. Vocalist Luciana Souza lends her warm, softly stated lyricism to several of these pieces amid blended horns, ...