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Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...

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Homage to Count Basie

By Bob Mintzer

Label: DMP Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Havin

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The Bob Mintzer Big Band: Homage to Count Basie

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2001

Anyone who can take my least favorite Basie recording, “April in Paris,” and make it sound as captivating as Bob Mintzer does on Homage to Count Basie (no “one more time!” or “one more once!”) has earned an enthusiastic thumbs–up without taking another step. But the talented tenor overlord doesn’t stop there; he “Mintzerizes” four other ...

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The Music of Duke Ellington and Bob Mintzer

By Bob Mintzer

Label: CIC Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Caravan; Creole Love Call; Sophisticated Lady; Things Ain

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The Hudson Project

By Bob Mintzer

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Runferyerlife; Labor Day; Little Swing; Cats + Kittens; The Well; Bass Desires; That

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Seasons of Romance

By Steve Kuhn

Label: Postcards
Released: 2022
Track listing: Six Gun; Romance; Visions of Gaudi; There is No Greater Love; The Pawnbroker; Remember; Coltilde; Good Morning, Heartache; Looking Back.

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The SWR Big Band Featuring Bob Mintzer: The Music of Duke Ellington and Bob Mintzer

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

To celebrate the centenary of Duke Ellington’s birth, Germany’s SWR Big Band joined forces with American saxophonist / big band leader Bob Mintzer for a May ’99 concert performance in Stuttgart that includes half a dozen compositions by Ellington (or associates) and four others by Mintzer. While considerable resourcefulness is needed to transmute any of these ...

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John Abercrombie, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, John Patitucci: The Hudson Project

by Jim Santella
May 1, 2000

Recorded live at The Manhattan Center in New York on October 17, 1998 and produced by Rob Walls & Paul Siegel for Hudson Music, Ltd., under exclusive license to Stretch Records, Inc., this innovative quartet comes together with a wallop. Each of the foursome is an experienced leader, and each artist meets the criteria of Chick ...

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Quality Time

By Bob Mintzer

Label: TVT
Released: 1998

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Bob Mintzer Quartet: Quality Time

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

As “quality time” is wholly subjective, others may find time spent with saxophonist Bob Mintzer’s quartet(s) far more pleasurable than I. On the one hand, Mintzer is a first–rate player, consistently resourceful and well–respected by his fellow musicians; on the other, he seldom manages to induce even the slightest response from my emotional nerve–center — even ...