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Blue Notes Orchestra: 30th Anniversary

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by Jack Bowers
January 15, 2006

The Blue Notes Orchestra hails from Hamamatsu and is one of a number of outstanding contemporary Japanese big bands who continue to make it clear beyond any doubt that one doesn't have to be born and bred in the USA to master the fine art of jazz musicianship. Blue Notes is as proficient in every respect ...

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Blue Notes

By Orbert Davis

Label: 3Sixteen Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Blue Notes; Hammer Head; Back in the Day; Dear D'Lana; The Real Deal; Steppin' Up; Glass Walls; Life is Short; Driftin'; Shaw Nuff

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Orbert Davis: Blue Notes

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by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2005

Orbert Davis, one of the Chicago area's favorite sons and best-kept secrets (although that status is rapidly changing), hasn't tinkered much with his third and latest album--it's essentially straight-ahead small-group jazz--but has managed to place the engine where the caboose should be. What I mean is, when you're a mind-bending trumpeter and have programmed songs like ...

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Orbert Davis: Blue Notes

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2005

No pretense surrounds Chicago trumpeter Orbert Davis's third effort, Blue Notes. The album eulogizes the hard bop ethos of the '60s Blue Note catalog. Davis covers classics from that period like Wayne Shorter's “Hammer Head" and Herbie Hancock's “Driftin'." The trumpeter's own composition, “Back in the Day," sounds like a cross between “Watermelon Man" and “The ...

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