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Album

Catch Me If You Can

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Make Me Rainbows; Helen’s Song; Catch Me If You Can; The Pond; Lapinha; The Barn; Bucket O’ Fat; Bijou; Big Dipper; Moonray.

Article: Album Review

The Mark Masters Ensemble: Night Talk: The Alec Wilder Songbook

Read "Night Talk: The Alec Wilder Songbook" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 8, 2020

Alec Wilder was born in 1907 and died in 1980, and might well have been described as an eccentric renaissance man. He composed opera, musicals, film music, popular songs, and chamber music, along with publishing in 1975 one of the most read books on popular music: American Popular Song: the Great Innovators 1900-1950. The ...

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The Mark Masters Ensemble: Night Talk: The Alec Wilder Songbook

Read "Night Talk: The Alec Wilder Songbook" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2020

Night Talk, the eighth album by celebrated arranger Mark Masters' superb West Coast-based ensemble, is subtitled “The Alec Wilder Songbook Featuring Gary Smulyan." Indeed, Smulyan's is an impressive solo voice (but hardly the only one) in an eloquent songbook that appraises eight of Wilder's tasteful compositions, including a pair of his best-known melodies, “Moon and Sand" ...

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Jeff Hamilton Trio: Catch Me If You Can

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by Jack Bowers
July 5, 2020

Any trio anchored by drummer Jeff Hamilton has a clear head start when compared to any would-be rivals. That's because Hamilton's unerring and tasteful timekeeping and resourceful use of brushes and sticks would be any trio's dream come true. In this case it's Hamilton's own trio, recording at least the sixteenth album under that name, the ...

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Keith Oxman: Two Cigarettes In the Dark

by Jack Bowers
April 28, 2020

What's a sure way to make a pretty good tenor saxophone-led quartet even better? Simple. Invite a second tenor and make sure his name is Houston Person. That's what Denver-based Keith Oxman has done to further enhance his quartet's splendid new album, Two Cigarettes in the Dark, sharing the front line with Person on six of ...

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Keith Oxman: Two Cigarettes In the Dark

by Edward Blanco
April 11, 2020

With the impressive Two Cigarettes in the Dark, Denver-based saxophonist Keith Oxman delivers what is most probably one of the finest albums on the contemporary jazz scene today. Imagine being in a dark room where you see nothing and suddenly two cigarettes are lit; naturally your attention will be focused on the cigarettes and the smoke ...

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Giant Steps

March 31, 2020

Album: Sadness and Soul
By Chip Stephens
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2019
Duration: 03:16

Article: Multiple Reviews

Two Twin-Tenor Duos

by Jerome Wilson
March 23, 2020

The idea of two tenor saxophonists playing together has a long, storied history in jazz through pairings like Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. Such duos have become harder to find in recent years but here are two newer examples. Jeff Rupert / ...

Album

Wild Man Blues

By Ehud Asherie

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Wild Man Blues; Parker's Mood; Flying Down To Rio; Autumn Nocturne; Chasin' The Bird; Na Baixa Do Sapateiro; Oh, Lady Be Good; And Then She Stopped.

Album

Overjoyed

By Larry Fuller

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Fried Pies; Overjoyed; Lined With A Groove; Jane's Theme; The Mooch; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Cubano Chant; Mona Lisa; Bossa Beguine; Bossa Nova Do Marilla; Never Let Me Go; Got My Mojo Workin'.