Results for "Brian Courage"

Brian Courage

Paul Dietrich's Elemental Quartet: A Small Patch of Earth

by Richard J Salvucci
February 25, 2025

Anyone who spends much time watching contemporary instrumentalists on the internet is bound to come away impressed. Modern players, it sometimes seems, can do just about anything. And that is particularly true of some instruments in the brass family, where the advances in technique and range over just a half-century are particularly impressive. There are many ...

A Small Patch of Earth

By Paul Dietrich

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Slide; Dust; Confluence; A Small Patch of Earth; With a Chance of Rain; Like a Company of Ghosts; Gray; Dry County; Galaxies.

5+4

By Paul Dietrich

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Springs; Suspend; Out Here; Of Islands; Some Things Last; Folk Song; A Separation; Closing.

Paul Dietrich: 5+4

by Jack Bowers
September 29, 2023

The concept for this latest album by Wisconsin-based trumpeter, composer and educator Paul Dietrich, his fourth as leader, can be found in its title, 5+4, wherein he employs a jazz quintet and four-member string section. It is to Dietrich's credit that neither one outshines the other; the quintet takes the lead on six of the album's ...