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Bill Cunliffe: Imaginacion
by Dan McClenaghan
Grammy-nominated pianist Bill Cunliffe loves a good melody. He's recorded a couple of sets of Reed Kotler's beautifully lyrical tunes, most recently Tomo (Torii, '05). With his latest offering, Imaginacion, the pianist/arranger wraps some melodies--his own and a few classics--in a strong Latin vibe.The expanded lineup, featuring two trombones, two trumpets, and a reed ...
Bill Cunliffe: Tomo
by Germein Linares
Tomo is the second album on Torri honoring composer Reed Kotler, following last year's release of It's About Love by pianist/arranger Bill Cunliffe. Though little known outside San Francisco, Kotler is a modern composer who seems to have struck an appreciative chord with the Los Angeles-based Cunliffe.As with It's About Love, the music on ...
Bill Cunliffe: Tomo
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Bill Cunliffe, winner of the 1989 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, seems to be making something of a career out of recording Reed Kotler tunes. He did that with Bobby Shew, Gary Foster and Friends Play the Music of Reed Kotler in 2002; Bill Cunliffe and Gary Foster: It's About Love: The Music of Reed ...
Bill Cunliffe: Tomo
by Michael P. Gladstone
It's always a pleasure to hear a release from the Torii catalogue. The five musicians presented here often play together in each other's company and also appear on other Torii albums, including 2002's Bobby Shew, Gary Foster and Friends Play the Music of Reed Kotler, and two albums from the next year, It's About Love: The ...
It's About Love
Label: Torii Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: At the End of the Day, I've Been Thinking of You Lately, Where Do I Go From
Here?, Nine Steps, I Can't Forget, Spring is Near, Thank You Lord,Amen!, Song for
Bill C., Cool Walk, Love is in the Air, Thoughts of You, Duck's Tune, Forever.
Bill Cunliffe/Gary Foster: It's About Love
by Dan McClenaghan
The genius of this teaming of pianist Bill Cunliffe and saxophonist Gary Foster on It's About Love is their ability to play jazz that evokes images of dapper men decked out in gleaming tuxedos, elegant bejewled ladies draped in sparkling evening gowns, all sipping from long-stemmed glasses of bubbly champagne. Classy sounding stuff. And Bill Cunliffe ...
A Fireside Chat With Bill Cunliffe
by AAJ Staff
There is a tendency to be indifferent to the familiar -an absence of appreciation with an assumption of the routine. But there is a wisdom in nothing lasts forever. So perhaps, it would behoove us to be grateful that we have musicians locally like Bill Cunliffe (unedited and in his own words), who too yearns for ...
Bill Cunliffe Latin Jazz Nonet
by Craig Jolley
Bill Cunliffe Latin Jazz Nonet Spazio Sherman Oaks, CA February 16, 2004 As with his other projects Bill Cunliffe's new band runs in an intelligent, fresh direction. An outgrowth of his straight-ahead sextet, the key to this band (besides the extra percussion) is the double trombones with the ...
Bill Cunliffe/Gary Foster: It's About Love
by Michael P. Gladstone
This album is a second volume presenting the music of composer Reed Kotler, following Bobby Shew-Gary Foster and Friends Play the Music of Reed Kotler (2002). It's About Love resumes with 13 songs as played by Gary Foster, Bill Cunliffe, Jeff D'Angelo and Tim Pleasant. Foster is one of Los Angeles' best kept secrets. I've heard ...
How My Heart Sings
Label: Torii Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Here's to Neil, City tune, Mother of Earl, Silverado Trail, How My Heart Sings,
Return to Love, Earl's
Blues, Elsa, Heads or Tails, Soiree
