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Dave Koz: Off the Beaten Path
by Dave Hughes
Popular saxophonist Dave Koz has attempted to veer “off the beaten path" with this release; in other words, to create something that goes beyond the current “smooth jazz" formula which so many contemporary saxophonists have embraced. For this, he is to be commended. Overall, it's a successful effort. He keeps one foot solidly planted on contemporary ...
Billy Strayhorn: The Peaceful Side
by Joel Roberts
During his twenty-five year tenure with the Duke Ellington Orchestra as composer, lyricist, arranger, and Duke's closest musical confidante, Billy Strayhorn rarely performed in front of a live audience and even less frequently entered a recording studio. Although his piano playing can be heard on a handful of records with the Ellington Orchestra as well as ...
Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool
by Jim Santella
As Miles Davis has indicated in his autobiography, he was breaking away from Bird and bebop, and finding his own voice, when he formed the nonet. Davis was attempting to take the sound of an orchestra (such as Duke Ellington's or Claude Thornhill's) and produce the same sound with only nine instruments: trumpet, alto sax, baritone ...
