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Album

Balancing Act

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Crazy Socks; Sunny Days Driven By; Bring the Noise; Hobo's Lullaby; Balancing Act; The Long and Winding Road; Time Apart; There and Back Again; Mirror Image; Midnight Nefarity; Crazy Socks (Trio).

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Zachary Bartholomew: Balancing Act

Read "Balancing Act" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 18, 2024

Miami-based jazz pianist Dr. Zachary Bartholomew is an award-winning musician, composer and educator at Florida Memorial University with a breadth of musical performances with such luminaries as the late Kevin Mahogany, John Beasley, David Liebman, Brian Lynch, Dafnis Prieto and Dave Holland among others. What Bartholomew had not done until this album is produce a recording ...

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Mike Holober: Balancing Act

Read "Balancing Act" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
July 11, 2016

Non è facile coniugare raffinatezza formale e tensione emotiva, meticolose orchestrazioni e libertà individuale, sottigliezze cameristiche e momenti jazzisticamente impetuosi. A capo del suo ottetto, Mike Holober offre un appassionante esempio di tutto ciò, realizzando il suo lavoro più maturo e ricercato, a distanza di sei anni dal precedente con la Gotham Jazz Orchestra ...

Album

Balancing Act

By Mike Holober

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Book Of Sighs; Idris; Lullabye: Goodnight My Angel; Grace At Sea; Piece Of My Heart; Canyon; Sighs Matter; When There Were Trains.

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When There Were Trains

November 24, 2015

Album: Balancing Act
By Mike Holober
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2015
Duration: 07:13

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Mike Holober: Balancing Act

Read "Balancing Act" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
November 12, 2015

Pianist/composer Mike Holober has had an active career with big bands (including HR Big Band Frankfurt, WDR Big Band Cologne, Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, and the Westchester Jazz Orchestra in the U.S.). So he brings a refined approach to the composing and arranging on this octet recording. He set himself an ambitious goal: to feature a vocalist, ...

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Mike Holober: Balancing Act

Read "Balancing Act" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 14, 2015

Conceptualizing and creating music is a delicate balancing act, leaving composers to strive for symmetry between head and heart, reasoning and intuition, and structure and freedom. Who better to understand that than Mike Holober? Whether penning a piece or playing piano, Holober has always shown himself to be mindful of the need to find harmony between ...