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The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Brian Landrus is a striking baritone saxophonist and appears to have become a full-time bass clarinetist as well. Landrus is unique and unlike anyone else in his tribe because he appears to have a genuine and very deep passion for the bass registers of the world. For all that is known he hears sounds that most ...
Traverse
Label: BlueLand Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Traverse; Gnosis; Lone; Lydian 4; Soul and Body; Body and Soul; Creeper; Soundwave.
Capsule
Label: Blue Land Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Striped Phase; Like The Wind; Beauty; I Promise; Capsule; 71 & On The Road; Wide Sky; Now.
The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule
by Dave Wayne
After exploring post-bop and free-ish jazz with his first two CDs, multi-reed player Brian Landrus extends his stylistic range into the realm of electric jazz with Capsule. Despite listing Fender Rhodes and electric guitar among the CD credits, Capsule is not really a fusion record. Rather, it's a jazz recording with some electronic instrumentation, along the ...
The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule
by Hrayr Attarian
On Capsule his second album on his own BlueLand label, baritone saxophonist and reed multi-instrumentalist, Brian Landrus pushes the boundaries of jazz and explores a more fusion-like style inspired by Motown and other related genres. Contributing to this electric sound is the addition of Nir Felder to the rhythm section whose Jimi Hendrix-like ...
Brian Landrus/the Landrus Kaleidoscope - Capsule (2011)
Brian Landrus is one of the fast rising artists on the NYC jazz scene; so much so that it was only in 2009 his debut album Forward came out and now in 2011, we are here talking about his third release of 2011, Capsule. This master of the low instruments like the baritone sax, bass clarinet ...
The Brian Landrus Quartet: Traverse
by AAJ Italy Staff
Bella band di professionisti quella che ruota intorno al sassofonista baritono Brain Landrus, allievo del noto pianista Michael Cain. Landrus colpisce subito per il suo tono colloquiale, per il fraseggio da tenorista, per la morbidezza del suono e pure, quando necessario, per la fluidità con cui padroneggia l'ingombrante strumento ("Lydian 4"). Ha poco a che fare ...
Brain Landrus Wields the Baritone with Dexterity on "Traverse"
Brian Landrus is a new-ish voice on the baritone. He has one album out on Cadence Jazz. The new one Traverse is on his own BlueLand Records (2011A). It's a quartet date with the potent lineup of Lonnie Plaxico on bass, Michael Cain, piano, and the always swinging Billy Hart on the drums. It's a contemporary ...
The Brian Landrus Quartet: Traverse
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a gravitas in the musical intellect of baritone saxophonist/bass clarinetist Brian Landrus that can only come from a wellspring emanating from the depths of a very bluesy soul. His is a singular voice and, as he sings in sensuous, velvet tones, his long magical lines swing and swagger with rhythmic grace. Although his music ...
Brian Landrus: Traverse
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist/composer Brian Landrus' Traverse is a mature, cohesive and intensely personal musical opus that reflects his various influences. Although adept at playing multiple reed instruments. Landrus is best-known for being a baritone saxophonist, an instrument he mostly sticks, along with some bass clarinet, with on this, his third CD. His creative and personal ...
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