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Bob Belden: Black Dahlia

Read "Black Dahlia" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Black Dahlia, without a doubt, will be remembered as the most ambitious jazz recording of the year. Rather than a blowing session, influential though blowing sessions may be, Bob Belden's Black Dahlia is an extended story-telling, romantic and fatalistic suite that was three years in the making. In addition, over sixty musicians wre required to fill ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob Belden: Black Dahlia

Read "Black Dahlia" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Black Dahlia, without a doubt, will be remembered as the most ambitious jazz recording of the year. Rather than a blowing session, influential though blowing sessions may be, Bob Belden's Black Dahlia is an extended story-telling, romantic and fatalistic suite that was three years in the making. In addition, over sixty musicians wre required to fill ...

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Bob Belden: Black Dahlia

Read "Black Dahlia" reviewed by Craig Jolley

by Craig Jolley

Black Dahlia comes off better felt than listened to. In the liner notes Bob Belden describes his programmatic suite as a portrait of a mysterious, romantic loner who lived out her brief life through movies in post-WWII Hollywood. He borrows “moody" techniques from 1940's film score writers and gives them a jazzy spin. Miles Davis and ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob Belden: Black Dahlia

Read "Black Dahlia" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Black Dahlia, without a doubt, will be remembered as the most ambitious jazz recording of the year. Rather than a blowing session, influential though blowing sessions may be, Bob Belden's Black Dahlia is an extended story-telling, romantic and fatalistic suite that was three years in the making. In addition, over sixty musicians wre required to fill ...

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Tim Hagans / Bob Belden: Re-Animation: Live in Montreal

Read "Re-Animation: Live in Montreal" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins

by Todd S. Jenkins

Given the technical considerations, I didn’t expect that trumpeter Tim Hagans and saxophonist Bob Belden would be able to translate their groundbreaking 1999 project, Animation/Imagination (Blue Note), to the live stage, but they proved me wrong in astonishing fashion. This new disc documents the band’s performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival with Hagans on trumpet, Belden ...

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Passionata

By Kenny Drew, Jr.

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Passionata; Hush-A-Bye; Dark Beauty; Dedication; When You Wish Upon A Star; Serenity Wave; Summertime; It Might As Well Be Spring; Evening In The Park; Passionata.

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Tapestry

By Bob Belden

Label: Jazz Heritage
Released: 1997
Track listing: I Feel The Earth Move; So Far Away; It's Too Late; Home Again; Beautiful; Way Over Yonder; Where You Lead; You've Got A Friend; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow; Smackwater Jack; Tapestry; You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman;


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