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Bruce Abbott

Joe Mongelli and the Cape Jazz Crew: WashAshore

by Geannine Reid
July 30, 2017

Joe Mongelli and the Cape Jazz Crew's new CD, WashAshore features well-known tunes with modern-day arrangement and trumpeter Mongelli and the Crew offer inspired playing. This is not just another standards album, but an imaginative and carefully crafted collection of arrangements that have already been tested in countless live performances. The group is full of interplay ...

Mistletoe Sax

By Bruce Abbott

Label: North Star Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Christmas Song; O Tannenbaum; Winter Wonderland; Silent Night; Deck the Halls; Christmastime Is Here; White Christmas; What Child Is This; I

Bruce Abbott and the North Star Jazz Ensemble: Mistletoe Sax

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2002

Listening to this seasonal mélange by saxophonist Bruce Abbott and the North Star Jazz Ensemble (supported by the Hawthorne String Quartet), the word “pleasant” springs to mind. The liner notes portray the album as a “collection of beloved holiday chestnuts” that is “richly romantic, slightly nostalgic and entirely engaging,” and I can’t think of a more ...